Japan’s Development Ambitions for Myanmar: The Problem of “Economics before Politicsâ€

Myanmar and Japan have had an important shared history since the Pacific War, when Japan occupied the British colony of Burma and established the country’s first postcolonial state and army. The period from 1941 to 1945 also witnessed the “militarization†of Myanmar as the country was turned in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Donald M. Seekins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
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Online Access:http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jsaa/article/view/875