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Imprint:	London ; New York : Hambledon and London, 2000.
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 195 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. Prisoners of war -- Europe. Prisoners of war -- United States. Prisoners of war -- Australia. Prisoners of war -- Southeast Asia. World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Southeast Asia. World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Southeast Asia. Concentration camps. Prisoners of war. Southeast Asia -- History. Australia. Europe. Southeast Asia. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11262804

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Other authors / contributors:	Towle, Philip, 1945- Kosuge, Margaret. Kibata, Yōichi, 1946-
ISBN:	9780826439789 0826439780 1852851929 9781852851927
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	During the Second World War the Japanese were stereotyped in the European and American imagination as fanatical, cruel and almost inhuman. This view is unhistorical and simplistic. It fails to recognise that the Japanese were acting at a time of supreme national crisis and it fails to take account of their own historical tradition. The essays in Japanese Prisoners of War, by both Western and Japanese scholars, explore the question from a balanced viewpoint, looking at it in the light of longer-term influences, notably the Japanese attempt to establish themselves as an honorary white race. The book also addresses the other side of the question, looking at the treatment of Japanese prisoners in Allied captivity -- book jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Japanese prisoners of war. London ; New York : Hambledon and London, 2000 1852851929

Table of Contents:

The Japanese Army and prisoners of war / Philip Towle
The Changi POW camp and the Burma-Thailand Railway / Robert Havers
Allied POWs and the Burma-Thailand Railway / Clifford Kinvig
Understanding the enemy : military intelligence, political warfare and Japanese prisiners of war in Australia, 1942-45 / Kent Federovich
POWs and international law / Hisakazu Fujita
Culture, race and power in Japan's wartime empire / Susan C. Townsend
Japan's racial identity in the Second World War : the cultural context of Japanese treatment of POWs / Harumi Furuya
Japanese treatment of British prisoners : the historical context / Yoichi Kibata
Religion, the Red Cross and Japanese treatment of POWs / Margaret Kosuge
The post-war treatment of Japanese overseas nationals / Hideo Kobayashi
Towards reconciliation : Japanese reactions to Ernest Gordon / Kazuaki Saito.

Japanese prisoners of war /

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