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Three Dutch shipwrecks dating back to World War II have mysteriously disappeared ... which led to Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, or what is now Indonesia.

the nationalist leader in Indonesia—then called the Dutch East Indies—who sided with the Japanese during World War II, then led his country to independence in the years following the war. In a faculty ...

and moved to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) before he turned one year of age. After World War II, he first resided in the Netherlands and immigrated in 1957, to the United States.

During World War II, thousands of prisoners of war were ... his father Johan became a prisoner of the Imperial Japanese Army in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. He was held in a camp in ...

Inside, 1945 feels like a cross between a grand old colonial sailing boat and a quaint Indonesian temple. The decor is timber and warm tones, the walls adorned with traditional Indonesian artwork.

But it did happen here." Defeat led to the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) The seas around Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia are a graveyard for hundreds of ships and ...

Prime Minister Mark Rutte has apologized to Indonesia after a study found that the Dutch army used extreme violence, including against civilians, during the archipelago nation's war of independence.

The existence of a cohort of Japanese Dutch people born during World War II is not well known. Born to Japanese men and local Dutch women in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) while it ...