Dutch East Indies campaign
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The Dutch East Indies campaign of 1941–1942 was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies by forces of the Empire of Japan in the early days of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Allied forces attempte
Japanese forces land on Java.
Dutch delegation at Kalijati during the negotiation for Dutch surrender
The Empire of Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies during World War II from March 1942 until after the end of the war in September 1945.
Dutch East Indies campaign
…targeted by the Japanese for their rich oil resources which would become a vital asset during the war. The campaign and subsequent three-and-a-half-year Japanese occupation was also a major factor in the end of Dutch colonial rule in the region. The East Indies was one of Japan's primary targets if and when it went to war…
Ching Nan Shrine in Malang, East Java. One out of 11 Shinto shrines built in Indonesia.
Occupation government of West Sumatra run by the 25th Army. (Left to right: Staff officer Nishiooeda, Field Marshal Hisaichi Terauchi, General Moritake Tanabe, and Governor Yano Kenzo.)
Japanese identity card issued to Louis Victor Wijnhamer, Jr., a local Indo-European man, during the occupation.
Liberated Dutch prisoners in 1945