MARC Record from Western Washington University

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050 4 $aDS889.15$b.T74 2003
100 1 $aTrefalt, Beatrice.
245 10 $aJapanese Army stragglers and memories of the War in Japan, 1950-1975 /$cBeatrice Trefalt.
260 $aLondon :$bRoutledgeCurzon,$c2003.
300 $ax, 241 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aRoutledgeCurzon studies in the modern history of Asia ;$v13
520 1 $a"This book comprehensively charts the discovery and repatriation between 1950 and 1975, of so-called 'stragglers' - Japanese soldiers who had remained in hiding overseas, unwilling to believe the war was over - still fighting the Second World War on the edges of former battlefields in South-East Asia and the Pacific. 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."--BOOK JACKET
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505 5 $aThe 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 Sh{macr}oichi returns from Guam, 1972 -- 'In the jungle, the war was still going on': Kozuka Kinshichi, Onoda Hir{macr}o 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, 1945-1995.
610 10 $aJapan.$bRikugun$xDemobilization.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xVeterans$zJapan.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xSocial aspects$zJapan.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zSoutheast Asia.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zPacific Area.
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