But the official number from a Japanese-Indonesian cultural org puts the stay-behind soldiers at 903. Japan also had a sort of romanticized renaissance with documentaries, academic papers and autobiographies of the stay-behinds in the 1980s and 1990s.
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The month they did land in March 1946, a bunch of pemuda militias organized in Bandung, where a Korean who was formerly with the Japanese Army would join up.