Japanese Army stragglers and memories of the war in Japan, 1950-1975 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Trefalt, Beatrice.
Imprint:	London : New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Description:	x, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	RoutledgeCurzon studies in the modern history of Asia ; 13
Subject:	Japan. -- Rikugun -- Demobilization. Japan. -- Rikugun. World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Japan. World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Japan. World War, 1939-1945 -- Asia, Southeastern. World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Area. Armed Forces -- Mobilization. Social aspects. Veterans. Japan. Pacific Area. Southeast Asia.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5056808

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ISBN:	0415312183
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-235) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. The Shared Past: Mobilisation for War
2. Creating Stragglers: Demobilisation, 1945-1950
3. 'Five Years on Mice and Potatoes': Exotic stragglers, 1950-1952
4. 'Living Spirits of the War Dead', 1954-56
5. 'But They Are Not Gorillas', 1959-1960
6. The Past in the Present: Yokoi Sh 'ichi Returns from Guam, 1972
7. 'In the Jungle, the War was still Going on': Kozuka Kinshichi, Onoda Hir ' and the last of Lubang, 1972-1974
8. 'Nakamura Teruo: The Last Straggler and the Issue of Imperialism
Conclusion

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