Title When empire comes home : repatriation and reintegration in postwar Japan / Lori Watt

Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center, [2009] ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : maps Series Harvard East Asian monographs ; 317 Harvard East Asian monographs ; 317. Contents Introduction: Repatriation, decolonization, and the transformations of postwar Japan -- New maps of Asia -- The co-production of the repatriate, 1945-49 -- "The future of the Japanese race" and "argumentative types" : women from Manchuria and men from Siberia -- "In the end, it was the Japanese who got us" : repatriates in literature, songs, and film -- No longer Hikiagesha : "orphans and women left behind in China" -- Conclusion: Third party decolonization and post-imperial Japan Summary "Following the end of World War II in Asia, the Allied powers repatriated more than six million Japanese nationals from colonies and battlefields throughout Asia and deported more than a million colonial subjects from Japan to their countries of origin. Depicted at the time as a postwar measure related to the demobilization of defeated Japanese soldiers, this population transfer was a central element in the human dismantling of the Japanese empire that resonates with other post-colonial and post-imperial migrations in the twentieth century. Lori Watt analyzes how the human remnants of empire, those who were moved and those who were left behind, served as sites of negotiation in the process of the jettisoning of the colonial project and in the creation of new national identities in Japan. Through an exploration of the creation and uses of the figure of the repatriate, in political, social, and cultural realms, this study addresses the question of what happens when empire comes home."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Honʼyaku iin shachū Japan gnd Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced repatriation. Return migration -- Japan -- History -- 20th century Social integration -- Japan -- History -- 20th century Decolonization -- Social aspects -- Japan National characteristics, Japanese. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. Decolonization -- Social aspects National characteristics, Japanese Refoulement Return migration Social conditions Social integration Repatriierung Nachkriegszeit Migration Gesellschaft SUBJECT Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069578 Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069508 Subject Japan Japan Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781684174904 1684174902

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