The dismantling of Japan's empire in East Asia : deimperialization, postwar legitimation and imperial afterlife /: deimperialization, postwar legitimation and imperial afterlife. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Barak Kushner, Sherzod Muminov.
• Editors: Kushner, Barak, 1968-; Muminov, Sherzod
• Contents: Introduction: Angles of Empire Part I: The New Postwar Order - Meaning and Significance 1. The Decline of the Japanese Empire and the Transformation of the Regional Order in East Asia Katō Kiyofumi 2. "De-imperialization" in Early Postwar Japan: Adjusting and Transforming Institutions of Empire Kawashima Shin 3. Imperial Loss and Japan’s Search for Postwar Legitimacy Barak Kushner 4. Collapse of the Japanese Empire and the Great Migrations: Repatriation, Assimilation, and Remaining Behind Araragi Shinzō Part II: War Criminals, POWS, and the Imperial Breakdown 5. The Shifting Politics of Guilt: the Campaign for the Release of Japanese War Criminals Sandra Wilson 6. Allied POWs in Korea: Life and Death during the Pacific War Sarah Kovner 7. Carceral Geographies of Japan’s Vanishing Empire: War Criminals’ Prisons in Asia Franziska Seraphim 8. Prejudice, Punishment and Propaganda: Post-Imperial Japan and the Soviet Versions of History and Justice in East Asia, 1945-1956 Sherzod Muminov Part III: Diplomacy, Law, and the End of Empire 9. Sublimating the Empire: How Japanese Experts of International Law Translated "Greater East Asia" into the Postwar Period Matthias Zachmann 10. The transformation of a Manchukuo imperial bureaucrat to postwar supporter of the Yoshida Doctrine: the case of Shiina Etsusaburō Kanda Yutaka 11. North Korean Nation Building and Japanese Imperialism: People’s Nation, "People’s Diplomacy" and the Japanese Technicians Park Jung Jin 12. Humanitarian Hero or Communist Stooge? The Ambivalent Japanese Reception of Li Dequan in 1954 Erik Esselstrom Part IV: Media and the Imperial Aftermath 13. The "Pacifist" Magazine Sekai: A Barometer of Postwar Thought Satō Takumi 14. Post-imperial Broadcasting Networks in China and Manchuria Shirato Kenichirō 15. Parting the Bamboo Curtain: Japanese Cold War Film Exchange with China Michael Baskett Comparative Epilogue 16. Germany as a role model? Coming to terms with Nazi War deeds, 1945-2015 Kerstin Von Lingen
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 327.5205; Japan -- Foreign relations -- East Asia; East Asia -- Foreign relations -- Japan; Japan -- Foreign relations -- 1945-
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317284796; 9781315643038; 9781317284789; 9781317284802
• Related ISBNs: 9781138187641
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