| Description |
1 online resource (x, 241 pages) : illustrations |
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RoutledgeCurzon studies in the modern history of Asia ; 13 |
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RoutledgeCurzon studies in the modern history of Asia ; 13.
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| Contents |
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 Shōichi returns from Guam, 1972 -- 'In the jungle, the war was still going on': Kozuka Kinshichi, Onoda Hirō and the last of Lubang, 1972-1974 -- Nakamura Teruo: the last straggler and the issue of imperialism -- Conclusion -- Appendix: number and provenance of repatriates to Japan, 1945-1995 |
| Summary |
Beatrice Trefalt describes and charts the various discoveries of Japanese soldiers who were still fighting World War II in South East Asia and the Pacific region long after it had ended. She also addresses their repatriation to Japan and the ambivalence of memories of the War in Japan. 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 casualties, families, as well as the ambivalence of memories of the war in Japan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-235) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Japan. Rikugun -- Demobilization
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| SUBJECT |
Japan. Rikugun fast |
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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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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Armed Forces -- Mobilization
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Social aspects
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Veterans
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Weltkrieg 1939-1945
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Soldat
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Spätheimkehrer
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Veteran
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Japan
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Pacific Area
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Southeast Asia
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Südostasien
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Japan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203480473 |
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9780203480472 |
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9786610054350 |
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6610054355 |
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9781134383436 |
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1134383436 |
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9781134383382 |
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113438338X |
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9781134383429 |
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1134383428 |
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9780415406284 |
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0415406285 |
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1280054352 |
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9781280054358 |
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