POST-WAR REPATRIATION TO DEFEATED JAPAN by Beatrice Trefalt ( 9780415552486 )

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POST-WAR REPATRIATION TO DEFEATED JAPAN

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0415552486

ISBN 13:

9780415552486

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

31 March, 2011

Series:

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Pages:

240

Description:

Examines the repatriation of more than six million Japanese from overseas territories in the period after the Second World War. This book contributes to the literature on mobility, migration and borders in the twentieth century, and also examines Japan's own post-war experience and the repatriation history of other nations.

Synopsis:

The repatriation of more than six million Japanese from overseas territories in the period between 1945 and the mid-1950shaad a major impact on Japanese culture and politics. The book explores the tensions of identity that emerged during the years of re-integration and shows how tightly post-war Japan remained entwined in the legacies of the war well into the 1950s. The book re-interprets the post-war years in Japan: years which often remain unexamined as 'in between' the poorest but also most dynamic reform period of the early Occupation, and the economic recovery of the mid-1950s. This period underpins the grass-roots conservatism of post-war Japan; the transformation of pre-war/wartime cooperative organisations into powerful political entities on the democratic stage; during which repatriates were differentiated from those at home both by their own nostalgia, and suspicion they were communist contagion; and in which, despite the cold war, ongoing negotiations about repatriation kept open channels of communication between Japan and its communist neighbours.Based on primary sources in Japanese, English and French, including government records, documents from the Red Cross, contemporary newspapers and magazines, individual memoirs and biographies, as well as secondary sources this book makes a major contribution to the history of early post-war Japan, and examines Japan's post-war experience with the repatriation history of other nations.

Illustrations:

1 black & white tables, 1 black & white line drawings

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Imprint:

Routledge

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Non-returnable

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