| Description |
1 online resource (254 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the text; Introduction; The shared past: mobilisation for war; Creating stragglers: demobilisation, 1945 1950; 'Five years on mice and potatoes': exotic stragglers, 1950 1952; 'Living spirits of the war dead', 1954 1956; 'But they are not gorillas', 1959 1960; The past in the present: Yokoi Shichi returns from Guam, 1972; 'In the jungle, the war was still going on': Kozuka Kinshichi, Onoda Hir and the last of Lubang, 1972 1974; Nakamura Teruo: the last straggler and the issue of imperialism; Conclusion |
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Appendix: number and provenance of repatriates to Japan, 1945 1995Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Japan. Rikugun -- Demobilization
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| SUBJECT |
Japan. Rikugun. fast (OCoLC)fst00534859 |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Japan
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Japan
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Southeast Asia
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Area
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Armed Forces -- Mobilization.
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Social aspects.
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Veterans.
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Japan.
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Pacific Area.
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Southeast Asia.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203480472 |
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0203480473 |
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