Phil,
Although many Dutch were evacuated in time, a lot of people were rounded up and placed in concentration camps, where they remained for the duration of the war. Men were kept separate from the women and children, but all were interned. Many did not survive the harsh conditions and a lot of women were forced to 'work' in Japanese army brothels.
The way the Japanese behaved in the Dutch colonies is one of the darkest pages in the Dutch and Japanese history and it is still very much a painfull part of the common history of both countries as Japan has not shown that much remoarse nor offered official apologies for years. Not a lot of Dutch people felt bad when the US nuked Japan twice.
So there would have been quite a few captures, although most were indeed taken from storage in arsenals, etc..
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