Four Years in a Red Coat: The Loveday Internment Camp Diary of Miyakatsu Koike
Four Years in a Red Coat: The Loveday Internment Camp Diary of Miyakatsu Koike
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红衣四年：小池宫胜集中营日记
DOI：
10.1080/1031461x.2023.2158532
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发表时间：
2023
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0.6
通讯作者：
Kobayashi Yasuko Hassall
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作者：
Kobayashi Yasuko Hassall
这本书讲述了一个非凡的故事，战争流动性在巨大的人口剧变的第二次世界大战。这本书的作者小池宫胜从荷属东印度群岛（印度尼西亚）的泗水前往澳大利亚，作为一名平民被拘留者，这本书是他在印度尼西亚和澳大利亚这两个国家经历的第一手资料。前四章讲述了他在到达澳大利亚之前在印度尼西亚的时光。在第二次世界大战之前，日本成为荷属东印度群岛最大的贸易伙伴，许多日本商人在荷属东印度群岛。其中有小池，他受雇于一家著名的日本外汇银行。在泗水，战争爆发后，几批日本人被组织遣返，但小池是留下来处理事务的人之一。当他被逮捕、拘留并被驱逐到Sumowono拘留营（后来被日本占领军用来关押西方平民）时，他富裕的外籍生活戛然而止。在营地呆了几个星期后，在没有被告知目的地的情况下，小池和其他被拘留者被带到一个漫长而疲惫的旅程中，经过马格朗和日惹，到达雅加达的一个港口。1942年1月9日，他们在那里被装上船。他们的目的地仍然不明，但被拘留者通过观察装载货物的情况，正确地猜到他们将前往澳大利亚和新西兰。这大约是新加坡沦陷前一个月，日本占领印度尼西亚前两个月。小池对日军在东南亚战役中到达爪哇的缓慢速度感到沮丧，这反映了他绝望的希望，即他们会及时到达并释放他。相反，他被转移到澳大利亚的“地狱”船，克雷默，由一项协议，与荷兰东印度群岛政府转移被拘留者到澳大利亚。在经历了一段地狱般的旅程后，小池受到了荷兰士兵的可怕对待，他到达了洛夫迪拘留营，这是第五章和第六章的主题。他观察了澳大利亚士兵对待被拘留者的方式，并设想新营地的环境会比爪哇营地更好。至少在接下来的四年里，他有一个稳定的存在。虽然老年人在营地死亡，但小池和来自亚太地区各地的其他被拘留者在那里生活，直到他们最终被遣返（第21章
This book tells an extraordinary story of war mobility during the tremendous demographic upheavals of World War II. Miyakatsu Koike, the author of the book, travelled from Surabaya in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) to Australia as a civilian internee, and this book is his firsthand account of his experience in two countries, Indonesia and Australia. The first four chapters deal with his time in Indonesia before he arrived in Australia. Before World War II, Japan became the largest trade partner to the Dutch East Indies, and many Japanese businessmen were in the Dutch East Indies. Among them was Koike, who was employed by a prestigious Japanese exchange bank. In Surabaya, right after the war broke out, repatriation was organised for several cohorts of Japanese, but Koike was among those who stayed behind to tie up loose ends of business. His affluent expatriate life was brought to an abrupt end when he was arrested, detained, and deported to the Sumowono Detention Camp (later used by the Japanese occupation forces to intern western civilians). After several weeks in the camp, without being told their destination, Koike and other internees were taken on a long and exhausting journey through Magelang and Yogyakarta to a port in Jakarta. There they were loaded onto a ship on 9 January 1942. Their destination was still unknown, but the internees correctly guessed by watching the cargo being loaded that they were bound for Australia and New Zealand. This was about a month before the fall of Singapore and two months before the Japanese occupation of Indonesia. Koike’s frustration about the slow pace of the Japanese forces in reaching Java as part of their Southeast Asian Campaign reflects his desperate hope that they would arrive in time to release him. Instead he was transferred to Australia in a ‘hell’ship, Cremer, by an agreement with the Dutch East Indies government to transfer internees to Australia. After a hellish journey, during which he was treated appallingly by the Dutch soldiers, Koike reached the Loveday Internment Camp, the subject of chapters five and six. He watched the way Australian soldiers treated internees and envisaged that the new camp environment would be better than that of a camp in Java. At least he had a stable existence for the next four years. While aged people died in the camp, Koike and fellow internees from all over the Asia Pacific region lived their lives there until their eventual repatriation (chapter