How the Axis (partially) caused famines in Vietnam & Java

In Java, policies enacted by the occupying [Imperial] Japanese military led to mass famine. The Vietnam famine, notwithstanding highly unfavourable weather and wartime bombing, might well have been sidestepped if one or more of three main groups had moved to supply food to the famine‐affected Tonkin delta and North Annam.

Those whose decisions could have made a difference included the French, who administered the country as a pro‐Vichy régime until the 9 March 1945 [Imperial] coup, the [Axis] military which occupied Vietnam from 1941 onwards, and the Americans who bombed the country.