Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75This 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 |
mobilisation for war | 13 |
demobilisation 19451950 | 24 |
exotic stragglers 19501952 | 49 |
4 Living spirits of the war dead 19541956 | 69 |
5 But they are not gorillas 19591960 | 88 |
Yokoi Shōichi returns from Guam 1972 | 111 |
Kozuka Kinshichi Onoda Hirō and the last of Lubang 19721974 | 136 |
Other editions - View all
Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75 Beatrice Trefalt Limited preview - 2013 |
Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75 Beatrice Trefalt No preview available - 2006 |
Common terms and phrases
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