Beatrice Trefalt

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book charts comprehensively the various discoveries in South East 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 casualities' families, as well as the ambivalence of memories of the war in Japan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780415312189
• ISBN-10: 0415312183
• Artikelnr.: 21493198

Autorenporträt

Beatrice Trefalt

Inhaltsangabe

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