Homecomings :: the Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers.

Soon after the end of World War II, a majority of the nearly seven million Japanese civilians and serviceman posted overseas returned home. Heeding the call to rebuild, these soldiers helped remake Japan and enjoyed popularized accounts of their service. For those who took longer to return, such as...

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1. Verfasser: Igarashi, Yoshikuni
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: La Vergne : Columbia University Press, 2016.
Schriftenreihe:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Zusammenfassung:Soon after the end of World War II, a majority of the nearly seven million Japanese civilians and serviceman posted overseas returned home. Heeding the call to rebuild, these soldiers helped remake Japan and enjoyed popularized accounts of their service. For those who took longer to return, such as the POWs detained in Siberian labor camps and the fighters who spent years hiding in the jungles of the South Pacific, coming 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-ret.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (319 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231541350
023154135X

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