Screen LibraryThe gods left first : the captivity and repatriation of Japanese POWs in northeast Asia, 1945-56 /
At the time of Japan's surrender to Allied forces on August 15, 1945, some six million Japanese were left stranded across the vast expanse of a vanquished Asian empire. Half civilian and half military, they faced the prospect of returning somehow to a Japan that lay prostrate, its cities destro...
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University of California Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Berkeley : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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At the time of Japan's surrender to Allied forces on August 15, 1945, some six million Japanese were left stranded across the vast expanse of a vanquished Asian empire. Half civilian and half military, they faced the prospect of returning somehow to a Japan that lay prostrate, its cities destroyed, after years of warfare and Allied bombing campaigns. Among them were more than 600,000 soldiers of Japan's army in Manchuria, who had surrendered to the Red Army only to be transported to Soviet labor camps, mainly in Siberia. Held for between two and four years, and some far longer, amid forced l |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-230) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520276154 : 0520276159 |
| Index Number: | DK759 |
| CLC: | K313.5 |
| Call Number: | K313.5/B282 |
| Contents: | I. Prologue -- The Gods Left First -- Sources and Method -- II. The Siberian Internment in History -- The Prince's Tale -- The Soviet-Japanese War -- Hot War to Cold -- The Soviet-Japanese Conflict : Prehistory into History -- Toward Internment -- The Internment Remembered -- III. Kazuki Yasuo and the Profane World of the Gulag -- Icons of the Profane -- The Red Corpse -- "My Vision Broadened Tenfold" -- The "Siberia Style" -- From Image to Text -- The Responsibility of the Artist -- "The Beauty only I Can Grasp" -- IV. Knowledge Painfully Acquired : Takasugi Ichirō and the "Democratic Mov |