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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Trefalt, Beatrice
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Series:	RoutledgeCurzon studies in the modern history of Asia ; 13.
Subjects:	Japan. > Rikugun > Demobilization. World War, 1939-1945 > Veterans > Japan. World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Japan. World War, 1939-1945 > Southeast Asia. World War, 1939-1945 > Pacific Area. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

The shared past: mobilisation for war
Creating stragglers: demobilisation, 1945-1950
'Five years on mice and potatoes': exotic stragglers, 1950-1952
'Living spirits of the war dead', 1954-1956
'But they are not gorillas', 1959-1960
The past in the present: Yokoi Shōichi returns from Guam, 1972
'In the jungle, the war was still going on': Kozuka Kinshichi, Onoda Hirō and the last of Lubang, 1972-1974
Nakamura Teruo: the last straggler and the issue of imperialism
Conclusion
Appendix: number and provenance of repatriates to Japan, 1945-1995.