残留日本兵と日本における戦争と記憶 1950-1975年 Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

Trefalt, Beatrice

Routledge（2006/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780415406284
• DDC分類 940.5352

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2004. 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.

Full Description

This book charts comprehensively the various discoveries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific of Japanese soldiers still fighting the Second World War many years after it had ended. It explores their return to Japan and their impact on the Japanese people, revealing changing attitudes to war veterans and war casualties' families, as well as the ambivalence of memories of the war.

Contents

Introduction 1. The Shared Past: Mobilisation for War 2. Creating Stragglers: Demobilisation, 1945-1950 3. 'Five Years on Mice and Potatoes': Exotic stragglers, 1950-1952 4. 'Living Spirits of the War Dead', 1954-56 5. 'But They Are Not Gorillas', 1959-1960 6. The Past in the Present: Yokoi Shôichi Returns from Guam, 1972 7. 'In the Jungle, the War was still Going on': Kozuka Kinshichi, Onoda Hirô and the last of Lubang, 1972-1974 8. 'Nakamura Teruo: The Last Straggler and the Issue of Imperialism Conclusion