This is quite strange but true: after 1945, the British-Indian troops sent in to reoccupy the NEI & Vietnam, to forestall any indigenous nationalists establishing themselves before the old colonial powers returned, actually resotred temporarily, due to manpower shortages, to the expedient of employing rearmed Japanese POWs as auxiliaries who were sent to fight the nationalists & guard certainn installations. Now, WI the French & Dutch, upon their respective imposition of colonial rule, had cont'd said practise of utilising former Jap soldiers to fight on their behalf on an extended basis ?