| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 399 |
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 399.
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| Contents |
Part I. Caucasians and race in Imperial Japan: 1. Racism, race consciousness, and Imperial Japan: A normative racism -- Aspects of race consciousness in Imperial Japan -- Sources of cognitive dissonance -- 2. Privilege and prejudice: being a westerner in Imperial Japan: Early foreign settlements -- The Yokohama community -- Ornaments in isolation: the Frank and Balk families -- Class insularity at Western resorts -- 3. Handling the other within: approaches to preemptive containment (1939-41): Direct and indirect forms of containment -- Japan's "Jewish Problem" and the Kobe community -- A repressed, mobilized Christianity -- Part II. Lives in limbo: containment in the wake of Pearl Harbor: 4. First responses and containment protocols after Pearl Harbor (1941-43): A new taxonomy of foreigners -- Temporary detentions of suspicious enemy nationals -- Enemy diplomatic staff under house arrest -- Racialized others: Jews and Asians -- 5. Watched and unseen: non-enemy nationals after Pearl Harbor (1941-43): Fracture and emotional conflict -- Withdrawal and invisibility -- Japanese ambivalence and anti-foreign sentiment -- 6. Fleeing for the hills: evacuee communities in Hakone and Karuizawa (1943-45): "Running smoothly" in Gora -- Karuizawa: a "strange miniature Babel" -- Part III. Lives behind walls: Japan's treatment of enemy civilians: 7. From humiliation to hunger: the internment of enemy nationals (1941-45): Camp administration -- The initial wave (1941-42) -- Stringency and privation (1942-45) -- 8. Torture and testimony: the incarceration of suspected spies (1944-45): Interrogation -- Trial and imprisonment -- Death and liberation -- 9. Race war?: on japanese pragmatism and racial ambivalence: The failure of propaganda -- Continuity and change following the surrender |
| Summary |
"Recovers and chronicles Western communities in wartime Japan and uses that body of experiences to reconsider allegations of Japanese racism and racial hatred. The book's accounts of stranded Westerners yield a unique interpretation of race relations and wartime life in Japan"-- Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan.
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Racism -- Japan -- History
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Race relations.
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Race relations -- Political aspects.
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Racism.
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Race relations -- Political aspects
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Japan -- Race relations -- History
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| Subject |
Japan.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781684175741 |
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1684175747 |
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