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Asian History Ser.: Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation by Edgar Porter and Ran Ying Porter (2018, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAmsterdam University Press
ISBN-109462989737
ISBN-139789462989733
eBay Product ID (ePID)12038612680
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameJapanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation
Publication Year2018
SubjectMilitary / World War II, Asia / Japan, Asia / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaHistory
AuthorEdgar Porter, Ran Ying Porter
SeriesAsian History Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight14.7 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"The content [of this volume], based upon forty-three first-hand accounts, presents a range of original and informative perspectives, adding a human dimension to processes and events that are more often covered from a policy or strategic perspective. [...] The work is highly readable and accessible, suggesting its suitability as a potential core text for an undergraduate class on the Japanese population's experience of war and occupation alongside the works of Tessa Morris-Suzuki ( Showa, An Inside History of Hirohito's Japan , London, 1984), Samuel Hideo Yamashita ( Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940-1945 , Lawrence, 2015) and Haruko T. and Theodore F. Cook ( Japan at War, An Oral History , New York, 1992)." - Thomas French, Canadian Journal of History , Volume 53, No.1, Spring/Summer 2018 "As the oral reminiscences incorporated into this deft and well-crafted historical overview illustrate, however, local residents were at the epicenter of numerous critical occurrences during both WW II and its aftermath. An army regiment involved in the 1933 attack on Nanjing in China; the naval base preparing the fleet for the Pearl Harbor attack; numerous national military and political leaders; a training center for kamikaze pilots"all called Oita home. During the American occupation, a regional command post was located in Beppu, the prefecture's largest city. Pulling together the recollections of some 40 individuals from Oita and the larger narrative of Japan at war and in defeat thus provides an engaging, critically important, and nicely balanced account of a period in Japanese history often under-acknowledged in Japan itself. Also intriguing: the interplay between important incidents associated with the war and the related individualized remembrances that tie together local experiences and national events. Highly recommended." - Choice Reviews 'An important and worthwhile study!' - moesson , Het Indisch Maandblad, August 2017 (review originally published in Dutch). '[The[ Porters have woven together the memories of students and factory workers, nurses and midwives, teachers, sailors and kamikaze pilots to create a rare account of ordinary life during extraordinary times in the Japanese countryside ... YJapanese Reflections on World War IIOE is a clear picture of how the tragedy and suffering of war affects ordinary people and their perceptions.' - Kris Kosaka for The Japan Times , July 2017.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal940.54/8252
Table Of ContentIntroduction Preface Map of Oita Prefecture Chapter 1: "Something Big Was Going to Happen" Chapter 2: One Million Souls, One Heart Chapter 3: Oita Men Troop to War Chapter 4: The War Expands and the People Mobilize Chapter 5: Invincible Japan Chapter 6: Fire from the Sky Chapter 7: "I Shall Die with Pleasure" Chapter 8: Never-Ending Sirens Chapter 9: A Hard Price to Pay Chapter 10: Donate Everything Chapter 11: Eliminate the City Chapter 12: Oita's Advisors to the Emperor Chapter 13: The Lightning Bolt Chapter 14: We Didn't Surrender, the War Just Ended Chapter 15: Hungry, Confused, and Afraid Chapter 16: The Devil Comes Ashore Chapter 17: A Bitter Homecoming Chapter 18: The Occupation Takes Hold Chapter 19: Miss Beppu, Crazy Mary, and William Westmorland Conclusion Chronology of Japanese Historical Events: 1905-1957 List of Interviewees
SynopsisThis book presents an unforgettable up-close account of the effects of World War II and the subsequent American occupation on Oita prefecture, through firsthand accounts from more than forty Japanese men and women who lived there. The interviewees include students, housewives, nurses, midwives, teachers, journalists, soldiers, sailors, Kamikaze pilots, and munitions factory workers. Their stories range from early, spirited support for the war through the devastating losses of friends and family members to air raids and into periods of hunger and fear of the American occupiers. The personal accounts are buttressed by archival materials; the result is an unprecedented picture of the war as experienced in a single region of Japan., This book presents an unforgettable up-close account of the effects of World War II and the subsequent American occupation on Oita prefecture., This book presents an unforgettably honest account of the effects of World War II and the ensuing American occupation in Japan's Oita prefecture, from the perspective of the Japanese citizens who experienced it. Through harrowing firsthand accounts from more than forty Japanese men and women who lived in the region, we get a strikingly detailed picture of the dreadful experiences of wartime life in Japan. The interviewees are wide-ranging and include students, housewives, nurses, teachers, journalists, soldiers, sailors, Kamikaze pilots, and munitions factory workers. And their collective stories range from early, spirited support for the war on to more reflective later views in the wake of the devastating losses of friends and family members to air raids, and finally into periods of hunger and fear of the American occupiers. Detailed archival materials buttress the personal accounts, and the result is an unprecedented picture of the war as felt in a single region of Japan.
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