Honored and dishonored guests : : westerners in wartime Japan / / W. Puck Brecher.

• Superior document: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 339
• VerfasserIn: Brecher, W. Puck,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, Massachusetts ;, London : : Harvard University Asia Center,, [2017]; 2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 339.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 370 pages :); illustrations, map

"Recovers and chronicles Western communities in wartime Japan and uses that body of experiences to reconsider allegations of Japanese racism and racial hatred. The book's accounts of stranded Westerners yield a unique interpretation of race relations and wartime life in Japan"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Part I. Caucasians and race in Imperial Japan: 1. Racism, race consciousness, and Imperial Japan: A normative racism -- Aspects of race consciousness in Imperial Japan -- Sources of cognitive dissonance -- 2. Privilege and prejudice: being a westerner in Imperial Japan: Early foreign settlements -- The Yokohama community -- Ornaments in isolation: the Frank and Balk families -- Class insularity at Western resorts -- 3. Handling the other within: approaches to preemptive containment (1939-41): Direct and indirect forms of containment -- Japan's "Jewish Problem" and the Kobe community -- A repressed, mobilized Christianity -- Part II. Lives in limbo: containment in the wake of Pearl Harbor: 4. First responses and containment protocols after Pearl Harbor (1941-43): A new taxonomy of foreigners -- Temporary detentions of suspicious enemy nationals -- Enemy diplomatic staff under house arrest -- Racialized others: Jews and Asians -- 5. Watched and unseen: non-enemy nationals after Pearl Harbor (1941-43): Fracture and emotional conflict -- Withdrawal and invisibility -- Japanese ambivalence and anti-foreign sentiment -- 6. Fleeing for the hills: evacuee communities in Hakone and Karuizawa (1943-45): "Running smoothly" in Gora -- Karuizawa: a "strange miniature Babel" -- Part III. Lives behind walls: Japan's treatment of enemy civilians: 7. From humiliation to hunger: the internment of enemy nationals (1941-45): Camp administration -- The initial wave (1941-42) -- Stringency and privation (1942-45) -- 8. Torture and testimony: the incarceration of suspected spies (1944-45): Interrogation -- Trial and imprisonment -- Death and liberation -- 9. Race war?: on japanese pragmatism and racial ambivalence: The failure of propaganda -- Continuity and change following the surrender.