James Heartfield wrote:
When Asians did take on the Japanese occupation, as in Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Burma they got precious little thanks for it from the allies, who quickly dismantled their ad hoc committees of national liberation, and in Indonesia and Korea released the same Japanese military police who had been in charge before to act as deputies for the allied occupation.
Actually I'm just now reading the JDF Jones Laurens van der Post bio, 'Storyteller'. Vd P was part of the British post-war transitional operations in Java (Indonesia). He was also in Abyssinia when Haile Selassie was brought back by the Allies and tended to pop up in a variety of similar transitional colonial situations with other mavericks such as Orde Wingate.
In Java the Brits in fact first tried to reinstate the former Dutch colonists when the Japanese surrendered. This led to open insurrection (senior Brit officers and many former Dutch internees were actually killed by the nationalists) due in particular to hatred for the Dutch. This led the Brits (rather unwillingly in some cases given that many had been interned under harsh conditions by the Japanese), to reinstate rule by the Japanese military. Amazing how common imperialist interests in keeping order in the former colonies over-rode even the kind of hatred that existed for the Japanese. They did however refuse Japanese officers the right to retain their samurai swords. The book also claims that the Japanese had in fact supplied arms to some of the nationalists. This no doubt gave them sufficient credibility to allow them to keep some sort of order.
Another interesting question on German fascism: For how long after the 'night of the long knives' in June 1934 and the physical destruction of the SA and Fascism's popular mass base, could Germany be described as fascist - military dictatorship is more like it.