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Homecomings : The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers /

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 repa...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Igarashi, Yoshikuni (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Colección:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Personal Names and Names of War
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One Life After the War: Former Servicemen in Postwar Japanese Film
  • Chapter Two. The Story of a Man Who Was Not Allowed to Come Home: Gomikawa Junpei and The Human Condition (Ningen no jōken)
  • Chapter Three. Longing for Home: Japanese POWs in Soviet Captivity and Their Repatriation
  • Chapter Four. "No Denunciation": Ishihara Yoshirō's Soviet Internment Experiences
  • Chapter Five. Lost and Found in the South Pacific: Postwar Japan's Mania Over Yokoi Shōichi's Return
  • Chapter Six. Rescued from the Past: Onoda Hiro'o's Endless War
  • Chapter Seven. The Homecoming of the "Last Japanese Soldier": Nakamura Teruo / Shiniyuwu / Li Guanghui's Postwar
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index