Defamiliarizing Japan's Asia-Pacific War
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Defamiliarizing Japan's Asia-Pacific War
University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2019
大学図書館所蔵 全4件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
収録内容
- The wartime destruction of the Japanese diplomatic record in historical perspective / Kazufumi Hamai and Peter Mauch
- Egalitarianism in Japanese medical insurance programs in war and peace, 1937-1946 / Yoneyuki Sugita
- Rakugo's negotiation of militarism during the World War II years / M.W. Shores
- Battlefield comforts of home : gendered commercialization of the military care package in wartime Japan, 1937-1945 / Annika A. Culver
- Japanese relations with Neutrals, 1944-1945 : the shift to pragmatism / Florentino Rodao
- Japanese military strategy in the Asia-Pacific War : three historiographical problems / Michael W. Myers
- Prophet in the twilight : Yanaihara Tadao's intellectual resistance against the Asia-Pacific War / Yumi Murayama
- The enemies among Us : race, trust, and allied internment in World War II Japan / A. Carly Buxton
- Eurasians and racial capital in a "Race War" / W. Puck Brecher
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This wide-ranging collection seeks to reassess conventional understanding of Japan's Asia-Pacific War by defamiliarizing and expanding the rhetorical narrative. Its nine chapters, diverse in theme and method, are united in their goal to recover a measured historicity about the conflict by either introducing new areas of knowledge or reinterpreting existing ones. Collectively, they cast doubt on the war as familiar and recognizable, compelling readers to view it with fresh eyes.
Following an introduction that problematizes timeworn narratives about a "unified Japan" and its "illegal war" or "race war," early chapters on the destruction of Japan's diplomatic records and government interest in an egalitarian health care policy before, during, and after the war oblige us to question selective histories and moral judgments about wartime Japan. The discussion then turns to artistic/cultural production and self-determination, specifically to Osaka rakugo performers who used comedy to contend with state oppression and to the role of women in creating care packages for soldiers abroad. Other chapters cast doubt on well-trod stereotypes (Japan's lack of pragmatism in its diplomatic relations with neutral nations and its irrational and fatalistic military leadership) and examine resistance to the war by a prominent Japanese Christian intellectual. The volume concludes with two nuanced responses to race in wartime Japan, one maintaining the importance of racial categories while recognizing the "performance of Japaneseness," the other observing that communities often reflected official government policies through nationality rather than race. Contrasting findings like these underscore the need to ask new questions and fill old gaps in our understanding of a historical event that, after more than seventy years, remains as provocative and divisive as ever.
Defamiliarizing Japan's Asia-Pacific War will find a ready audience among World War II historians as well as specialists in war and society, social history, and the growing fields of material culture and civic history.
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