Author: Yoshikuni Igarashi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016-09-06
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 023154135X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Soon after the end of World War II, a majority of the nearly 7 million Japanese civilians and serviceman who had been posted overseas returned home. Heeding the call to rebuild, these veterans helped remake Japan and enjoyed popularized accounts of their service. For those who took longer to be repatriated, such as the POWs detained in labor camps in Siberia and the fighters who spent years hiding in the jungles of islands in the South Pacific, returning home was more difficult. Their nation had moved on without them and resented the reminder of a humiliating, traumatizing defeat. Homecomings tells the story of these late-returning Japanese soldiers and their struggle to adapt to a newly peaceful and prosperous society. Some were more successful than others, but they all charted a common cultural terrain, one profoundly shaped by media representations of the earlier returnees. Japan had come to redefine its nationhood through these popular images. Yoshikuni Igarashi explores what Japanese society accepted and rejected, complicating the definition of a postwar consensus and prolonging the experience of war for both Japanese soldiers and the nation. He throws the postwar narrative of Japan's recovery into question, exposing the deeper, subtler damage done to a country that only belatedly faced the implications of its loss.
Author: Denny Roy
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013-06-25
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0231159005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Through a careful consideration of historical factors and raw data, Denny Roy examines the benefits and consequences of a more politically, economically, and militarily potent China. Since China's sphere of influence encroaches on the autonomy of regional states, its attempts to increase its security have diminished the security of its neighbours.
Author: Christian Deputation to Japan, 1945
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Susan H. Kamei
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-09-27
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 1481401459
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"An oral history about Japanese internment during World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, from the perspective of children and young people affected"--
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 504
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Suma Ikeuchi
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781503607965
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After the introduction of the "long-term resident" visa, the mass-migration of Nikkeis (Japanese Brazilians) has led to roughly 190,000 Brazilian nationals living in Japan. While the ancestry-based visa confers Nikkeis' right to settlement virtually as a right of blood, their ethnic ambiguity and working-class profile often prevent them from feeling at home in their supposed ethnic homeland. In response, many have converted to Pentecostalism, reflecting the explosive trend across Latin America since the 1970s. Jesus Loves Japan offers a rare window into lives at the crossroads of return migration and global Pentecostalism. Suma Ikeuchi argues that charismatic Christianity appeals to Nikkei migrants as a "third culture"--one that transcends ethno-national boundaries and offers a way out of a reality marked by stagnant national indifference. Jesus Loves Japan insightfully describes the political process of homecoming through the lens of religion, and the ubiquitous figure of the migrant as the pilgrim of a transnational future.
Author: Hugh Borton
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780739103920
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It sheds fascinating new light on the development of the United States' post-war Japanese policy and the often fractious relationships between the various agencies tasked with its creation and implementation."--BOOK JACKET.