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Daily life in wartime Japan, 1940-1945 /

The population of wartime Japan (1940-1945) has remained a largely faceless enemy to most Americans thanks to the distortions of US wartime propaganda, popular culture, and news reports. At a time when this country's wartime experiences are slowly and belatedly coming into focus, this remarkabl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yamashita, Samuel Hideo, 1946- (Autor)
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 2015.
Colección:Modern war studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. The home front
  • We all are home-front soldiers now
  • "No luxuries until the war is won"
  • Part II. The evacuated children
  • Making "splendid little citizens"
  • Monitoring the evacuated children
  • The "food problem" of evacuated children in wartime Japan
  • Part III. The last resort
  • Learning how to die
  • Popular resistance to the wartime government and its policies
  • The "jeweled sound."