Japanese An officers' meeting

Title
Japanese An officers' meeting
Year/Period
1942
Region
Japan or Indonesia
Material
Dimension
Image size: 9.2 x 14.1 cm
Accession No.
2000-05495

A Japanese officer, with his back facing us, is standing in the middle of a sullen room of Caucasian men. The date written on the caption, 8 March (1942), marks the surrender of the Allied forces in Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia) following their defeat against the Japanese in the Battle of the Java Sea.