Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War
Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War

Author: W. Puck Brecher

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2019-10-31

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0824881370

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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 either introducing new areas of knowledge or reinterpreting existing ones. Collectively, they cast doubt on the war as familiar and recognizable, compelling readers to view it with fresh eyes. Following an introduction that problematizes timeworn narratives about a “unified Japan” and its “illegal war” or “race war,” early chapters on the destruction of Japan’s diplomatic records and government interest in an egalitarian health care policy before, during, and after the war oblige us to question selective histories and moral judgments about wartime Japan. The discussion then turns to artistic/cultural production and self-determination, specifically to Osaka rakugo performers who used comedy to contend with state oppression and to the role of women in creating care packages for soldiers abroad. Other chapters cast doubt on well-trod stereotypes (Japan’s lack of pragmatism in its diplomatic relations with neutral nations and its irrational and fatalistic military leadership) and examine resistance to the war by a prominent Japanese Christian intellectual. The volume concludes with two nuanced responses to race in wartime Japan, one maintaining the importance of racial categories while recognizing the “performance of Japaneseness,” the other observing that communities often reflected official government policies through nationality rather than race. Contrasting findings like these underscore the need to ask new questions and fill old gaps in our understanding of a historical event that, after more than seventy years, remains as provocative and divisive as ever. Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War will find a ready audience among World War II historians as well as specialists in war and society, social history, and the growing fields of material culture and civic history.

Japan's Asia Policy
Japan's Asia Policy

Author: Wolf Mendl

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1134711174

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This volume provides a timely and expert analysis of Japan's Asia policy as the country continues to address the future through trying to cope with the burden of a chequered past. Dr Mendl locates his expostion of Japan's policy towards both North-East and South-East Asia in a full historical and cultural context and importantly takes due account of the underlying and potent factor of national identity in shaping international outlook. He begins his study with a discussion of the enigma of Japanese policy expressed in debate over whether or not that policy expresses a calculated grand design. A corresponding enigma emerges in Dr Mendl's exposition of Japan's policy towards a part of the world with which it shares a geographical location and a measure of identity but one which, he maintains, cannot be separated from its engagement at the global level. In exploring the theme of how Japan is confronted by the problem of reconcling its relations with Asia with pursuing a global role in unchartered post-Cold War waters, Dr.Mendl makes a lucid and scholarly contribution to the debate about Japan's place in a world which it has helped to shape through its economic performance and example.

Japan's Pacific Policy: Especially in Relation to China
Japan's Pacific Policy: Especially in Relation to China

Author: Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami

Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press

Published: 2018-11-11

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9780353448230

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Japan's Pacific Policy
Japan's Pacific Policy

Author: Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780265412459

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Excerpt from Japan's Pacific Policy: Especially in Relation to China, the Far East, and the Washington Conference And what of China? It may be safely said that the Washington Conference has definitely put an end to an age of international freebooting in that country, and that she need no longer be haunted with fear of dis memberment. Nevertheless, she faces a new danger the danger of an international concert for the super vision of her administration and finances. Some of the utterances made and the resolutions adopted at the Conference furnish an unmistakable warning, which China must heed if she is to avoid the approaching danger. In the chapters on China, I have tried to describe some of the grave internal problems which she must, in justice to herself as well as to the Powers, make honest efforts to solve. I have pointed out that the real menace to China lies within rather than without. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Japan's Pacific Policy
Japan's Pacific Policy

Author: Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2015-08-31

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9781340649876

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Japan's Pacific Policy
Japan's Pacific Policy

Author: Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2014-02-23

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9781294695882

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Japan's Pacific Policy: Especially In Relation To China Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami E. P. Dutton & company, 1922 China; Conference on the Limitation of Armament/ (1921-1922; Eastern question (Far East); Japan