Defamiliarizing Japan's Asia-Pacific War / / ed. by Michael W. Myers, W. Puck Brecher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Brecher, W. Puck,; Buxton, A. Carly,; Culver, Annika A.,; Hamai, Kazufumi,; Mauch, Peter,; Murayama, Yumi,; Myers, Michael W.,; Rodao, Florentino,; Shores, M. W.,; Sugita, Yoneyuki,
• HerausgeberIn: Brecher, W. Puck,; Myers, Michael W.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Buxton, A. Carly.; Culver, Annika A.; García, Florentino Rodao.; Hamai, Kazufumi.; Mauch, Peter.; Murayama, Yumi.; Shores, Matthew.; Sugita, Yoneyuki.
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.) :; 8 b&w illustrations

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 eithe...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. The Wartime Destruction of the Japanese Diplomatic Record in Historical Perspective
• 2. Egalitarianism in Japanese Medical Insurance Programs in War and Peace, 1937-1946
• 3. Rakugo's Negotiation of Militarism during the World War II Years
• 4. Battlefield Comforts of Home
• 5. Japanese Relations with Neutrals, 1944-1945
• 6. Japanese Military Strategy in the Asia-Pacific War
• 7. Prophet in the Twilight
• 8. The Enemies among Us
• 9. Eurasians and Racial Capital in a "Race War"
• Contributors
• Index