Harp of Burma (Biruma no tategoto, engl.) Transl. from the Japanese by Howard Hibbett 1. print.)
Author: Michio Takeyama
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Published: 1966
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Author: Michio Takeyama
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Published: 1966
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard H. Minear
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2007-07-09
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1461645530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTakeyama Michio, the author of Harp of Burma, was thirty-seven in 1941, the year of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Husband, father of children born during the war, and teacher at Japan’s elite school of higher education in Tokyo, he experienced the war on its home front. His essays provide us with a personal record of the bombing of Tokyo, the shortage of food, the inability to get accurate information about the war, the frictions between civilians and military and between his elite students and other civilians, the mobilization of students into factory jobs and the military, and the relocation of civilians out of the Tokyo area. This intimate account of the “scars of war,” including personal anecdotes from Takeyama’s students and family, is one of very few histories from this unique vantage point. Takeyama’s writings educate readers about how the war affected ordinary Japanese and convey his thoughts about Japan's ally Germany, the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, and the immediate postwar years. Beautifully translated by Richard H. Minear, these honest and moving essays are a fresh look at the history of Japan during the Asia-Pacific War.
Author: James J. Orr
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2001-04-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780824824358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first systematic, historical inquiry into the emergence of "victim consciousness" (higaisha ishiki) as an essential component of Japanese pacifist national identity after World War II. In his meticulously crafted narrative and analysis, the author reveals how postwar Japanese elites and American occupying authorities collaborated to structure the parameters of remembrance of the war, including the notion that the emperor and his people had been betrayed and duped by militarists. He goes on to explain the Japanese reliance on victim consciousness through a discussion of the ban-the-bomb movement of the mid-1950s, which raised the prominence of Hiroshima as an archetype of war victimhood and brought about the selective focus on Japanese war victimhood; the political strategies of three self-defined war victim groups (A-bomb victims, repatriates, and dispossessed landlords) to gain state compensation and hence valorization of their war victim experiences; shifting textbook narratives that reflected contemporary attitudes and structured future generations' understanding of the war; and three classic antiwar novels and films that contributed to the shaping of a "sentimental humanism" that continues to leave a strong imprint on the collective Japanese conscience.
Author: Michio Takeyama
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Shûichi Katô
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1999-05-03
Total Pages: 507
ISBN-13: 0520219791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this critically acclaimed autobiography, cultural critic, novelist, and physician Kato Shuichi reconstructs his dramatic spiritual and intellectual journey from the militarist era of prewar Japan to the dynamic postwar landscapes of Japan and Europe. 13 photos.
Author: Howard Pease
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 346
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Congo is a vessel which is dogged by disaster. Tod Moran signs on as a fireman and at once is plunged into thrilling adventure.
Author: M. E. Kerr
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780761455455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wimp and a winner switch places in the school pecking order