ArticleAuthors: Furuta Motoo (2002)
During the past 10 years, together with several Vietnamese historians, I have conducted an investigation into the real situation of the famine in North Vietnam in 1945. The famine was really a disaster during the occupation of Japanese troops 111 this country. However, this famine has been little known in Japan. One of
the main reasons is that we have not had enough records of this disastrous event. The year of 1945 is seen as a m omentous turning-point of Vietnam's modern history. Up to the beginning of 1945, Vietnam, Laos and
Cambodia were French colonies. In September 1940, before the Pacific War broke out, Japan brought its troops to occupy this land, but the sovereignty of the ... 
