Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75 - Brossura

Trefalt, Beatrice

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415406285 ISBN 13: 9780415406284

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2006

Riassunto

This book charts comprehensively the various discoveries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific of Japanese soldiers still fighting the Second World War many years after it had ended. It explores their return to Japan and their impact on the Japanese people, revealing changing attitudes to war veterans and war casualties' families, as well as the ambivalence of memories of the war.

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Contenuti:

Introduction  1. The Shared Past: Mobilisation for War  2. Creating Stragglers: Demobilisation, 1945-1950  3. 'Five Years on Mice and Potatoes': Exotic stragglers, 1950-1952  4. 'Living Spirits of the War Dead', 1954-56  5. 'But They Are Not Gorillas', 1959-1960  6. The Past in the Present: Yokoi Shôichi Returns from Guam, 1972  7. 'In the Jungle, the War was still Going on': Kozuka Kinshichi, Onoda Hirô and the last of Lubang, 1972-1974  8. 'Nakamura Teruo: The Last Straggler and the Issue of Imperialism  Conclusion

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0415406285
• ISBN 13: 9780415406284
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256