Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan.

This book charts comprehensively the various discoveries in south-east Asia and the Pacific of Japanese soldiers still fighting the Second World War many years after it had ended.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trefalt, Beatrice
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Temas:
Japan. > Rikugun > Demobilization.
Japan. > Rikugun
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Veterans > Japan.
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Japan.
World War, 1939-1945 > Southeast Asia.
World War, 1939-1945 > Pacific Area.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect social > Japon.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Asie du Sud-Est.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Pacifique, Région du.
Armed Forces > Mobilization
Social aspects
Veterans
Japan
Pacific Area
Southeast Asia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the text; Introduction; The shared past: mobilisation for war; Creating stragglers: demobilisation, 1945 1950; 'Five years on mice and potatoes': exotic stragglers, 1950 1952; 'Living spirits of the war dead', 1954 1956; 'But they are not gorillas', 1959 1960; The past in the present: Yokoi Shichi returns from Guam, 1972; 'In the jungle, the war was still going on': Kozuka Kinshichi, Onoda Hir and the last of Lubang, 1972 1974; Nakamura Teruo: the last straggler and the issue of imperialism; Conclusion.
  • Appendix: number and provenance of repatriates to Japan, 1945 1995Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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