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
Mobilisation for | |
Demobilisation 19451950 | |
Exotic stragglers 19501952 | |
Living spirits of the war dead 19541956 | |
But they are not gorillas 19591960 | |
Yokoi Shōichi returns from Guam 1972 | |
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
11 February According American Anatahan Asahi shimbun Asia attitudes Bureau of Repatriate chapter China civilians commemoration dead defeat demobilised discourses edition Emperor Engo gojūnen shi example experience fact families Guam Guinea hero hiding hikiage History indigenous Taiwanese island January Japanese Army Japanese government Japanese Imperial Army Japanese population Japanese soldiers josei jishin journalists June jungle Kozuka Kozuka Kinshichi Kozuka's death living Lubang Lubang stragglers Mainichi shimbun March military Mindoro Morotai Nakamura Nakano School national identity newspapers Nihon Occupation October Onoda Pacific past period Philippines post-war Japan pre-war and wartime prisoners Repatriate Welfare reports rescue return of stragglers Saigo no senshisha Saipan Sandee mainichi Shimada shinchō shoot-out Shōwa Shūkan asahi Shūkan bunshun Shūkan gendai Shūkan posuto Shūkan sankei Shūkan shinchō Shūkan yomiuri stragglers surrender survival Taiwan Taiwanese veterans Tokyo University Press victim consciousness Wakaichi Yasukuni Yasukuni Shrine Yokoi Yokoi Shōichi Yokoi's return Yomiuri shimbun Yoshida