When Empire Comes Home

Repatriation and Reintegration in Postwar Japan

Lori Watt

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$39.95 • £31.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674033429

Publication Date: 08/31/2009

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264 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

1 halftones, 3 maps, 4 tables

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Maps, Figures, and Tables
Introduction: Repatriation, Decolonization, and the Transformations of Postwar Japan
New Maps of Asia
The Co-Production of the Repatriate, 1945–49
“The Future of the Japanese Race” and “Argumentative Types”: Women from Manchuria and Men from Siberia
“In the End, It Was the Japanese Who Got Us”: Repatriates in Literature, Songs, and Film
“No Longer Hikiagesha”: Orphans and Women Left Behind in China
Conclusion: Third Party Decolonization and Post-Imperial Japan
Works Cited
Index

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