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  • Japanese War Criminals

    The Politics of Justice After the Second World War

    by Sandra Wilson, Robert Cribb, Beatrice Trefalt, Dean Aszkielowicz ...
    Beginning in late 1945, the United States, Britain, China, Australia, France, the Netherlands, and later the Philippines, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China convened national courts to prosecute Japanese military personnel for war crimes. The defendants included ethnic Koreans and Taiwanese who had served with the armed forces as Japanese subjects. In Tokyo, the International ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75

    by Beatrice Trefalt ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book charts comprehensively the various discoveries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific of Japanese soldiers still fighting the Second World War many years after it had ended. It explores their return to Japan and their impact on the Japanese people, revealing changing attitudes to war veterans and war casualties' families, as well as the ambivalence of memories of the war. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • The Pacific War, 1931-1945

    A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War II

    by Saburo Ienaga ...
    A portrayal of how and why Japan waged war from 1931-1945 and what life was like for the Japanese people in a society engaged in total war. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Japan's Comfort Women

    by Yuki Tanaka ...
    Japan's Comfort Women tells the harrowing story of the "comfort women" who were forced to enter prostitution to serve the Japanese Imperial army, often living in appalling conditions of sexual slavery. Using a wide range of primary sources, the author for the first time links military controlled prostitution with enforced prostitution. He uncovers new and controversial information about the role ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Hidden Horrors

    Japanese War Crimes in World War II

    by Yuki Tanaka ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    This landmark book documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during World War II. Yuki Tanaka’s case studies, still remarkably original and significant, include cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments. The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • The Japanese Empire

    Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War

    by S. C. M. Paine ...
    The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland required the containment of Russia. Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–5) and the Russo ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Occupying Power

    Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan

    by Sarah Kovner ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    The year was 1945. Hundreds of thousands of Allied troops poured into war-torn Japan and spread throughout the country. The effect of this influx on the local population did not lessen in the years following the war's end. In fact, the presence of foreign servicemen also heightened the visibility of certain others, particularly panpan—streetwalkers—who were objects of their desire.Occupying Power ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Grassroots Fascism

    The War Experience of the Japanese People

    Translated by Ethan Mark ...
    by Yoshiaki Yoshimi ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Grassroots Fascism profiles the Asia Pacific War (1937–1945)—the most important though least understood experience of Japan's modern history—through the lens of ordinary Japanese life. Moving deftly from the struggles of the home front to the occupied territories to the ravages of the front line, the book offers rare insights into popular experiences from the war's troubled beginnings through ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Pacific War

    Aftermaths, Remembrance and Culture

    Edited by Christina Twomey, Ernest Koh ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    The Pacific War is an umbrella term that refers collectively to a disparate set of wars, however, this book presents a strong case for considering this assemblage of conflicts as a collective, singular war. It highlights the genuine thematic commonalities in the legacies of war that cohere across the Asia-Pacific and shows how the wars, both individually and collectively, wrought dramatic change ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Perilous Memories

    The Asia-Pacific War(s)

    Edited by Geoffrey M. White, Lisa Yoneyama, Takashi Fujitani ...
    Perilous Memories makes a groundbreaking and critical intervention into debates about war memory in the Asia-Pacific region. Arguing that much is lost or erased when the Asia-Pacific War(s) are reduced to the 1941–1945 war between Japan and the United States, this collection challenges mainstream memories of the Second World War in favor of what were actually multiple, widespread conflicts. The ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Korean War

    A History

    by Bruce Cumings ...
    Series Book 33 - Modern Library Chronicles
    A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED.For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Japan and Britain at War and Peace

    Edited by Hugo Dobson, Nobuko Kosuge ...
    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
    Since the events of the Second World War the relationship between Japan and Britain has undergone an extraordinary transformation, from bitter conflict to peaceful alliance. Japan and Britain at War and Peace is a multilayered examination of this bilateral relationship with an emphasis on the issue of reconciliation.Reconciliation is explored in a broad sense and in a number of areas from economic ... Read more

    $65.99 USD