Yoshikuni Igarashi

Homecomings

The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers

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Produktbeschreibung

Homecomings tells the story of late-returning Japanese soldiers and their struggle to adapt to a newly peaceful and prosperous society. Yoshikuni Igarashi explores what Japanese society accepted and rejected, complicating the definition of a postwar consensus and prolonging the experience of war for both Japanese soldiers and the nation.

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Produktdetails

• Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 150mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9780231177719
• ISBN-10: 0231177712
• Artikelnr.: 59173541

Autorenporträt

Yoshikuni Igarashi

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Note on Personal Names and Names of War
Introduction
1. Life After the War: Former Servicemen in Postwar Japanese Film
2. The Story of a Man Who Was Not Allowed to Come Home: Gomikawa Junpei and
The Human Condition (Ningen no joken)
3. Longing for Home: Japanese POWs in Soviet Captivity and Their
Repatriation
4. "No Denunciation": Ishihara Yoshiro's Soviet Internment Experiences
5. Lost and Found in the South Pacific: Postwar Japan's Mania Over Yokoi
Shoichi's Return
6. Rescued from the Past: Onoda Hiro'o's Endless War
7. The Homecoming of the "Last Japanese Soldier": Nakamura
Teruo/Shiniyuwu/Li Guanghui's Postwar
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index