The Dismantling of Japan's Empire in East Asia: deimperialization, postwar legitimation and imperial afterlife

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction: the unevenness of the end of empire -- SECTION ONE The new postwar order: meaning and significance -- 1 The decline of the Japanese empire and the transformation of the regional order in East Asia --...

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1. Verfasser: Kushner, Barak 1968- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge 2017
Schriftenreihe:Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia 123
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Zusammenfassung:Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction: the unevenness of the end of empire -- SECTION ONE The new postwar order: meaning and significance -- 1 The decline of the Japanese empire and the transformation of the regional order in East Asia -- 2 "Deimperialization" in early postwar Japan: adjusting and transforming the institutions of empire -- 3 Imperial loss and Japan's search for postwar legitimacy -- 4 The collapse of the Japanese empire and the great migrations: repatriation, assimilation, and remaining behind -- SECTION TWO War criminals, POWs, and the imperial breakdown -- 5 The shifting politics of guilt: the campaign for the release of Japanese war criminals -- 6 Allied POWs in Korea: life and death during the Pacific War -- 7 Carceral geographies of Japan's vanishing empire: war criminals' prisons in Asia -- 8 Prejudice, punishment, and propaganda: post-imperial Japan and the Soviet versions of history and justice in East Asia, 1945-1956 -- SECTION THREE Diplomacy, law, and the end of empire -- 9 Sublimating the empire: how Japanese experts of international law translated Greater East Asia into the postwar period -- 10 The transformation of a Manchukuo imperial bureaucrat to postwar supporter of the Yoshida Doctrine: the case of Shiina Etsusaburō -- 11 North Korean nation building and Japanese imperialism: people's nation, people's diplomacy, and Japanese technicians -- 12 Humanitarian hero or communist stooge? The ambivalent Japanese reception of Li Dequan in 1954 -- SECTION FOUR Media and the imperial aftermath -- 13 The "pacifist" magazine Sekai: a barometer of postwar thought -- 14 Post-imperial broadcasting networks in China and Manchuria -- 15 Parting the Bamboo Curtain: Japanese Cold War film exchange with China -- Comparative epilogue
16 Germany as a role model? Coming to terms with Nazi war deeds, 1945-2015 -- Index
Beschreibung:XIV, 334 Seiten
ISBN:9781317284802
9781138187641

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