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245	0	0	_aDefamiliarizing Japan's Asia-pacific war / _cedited by W. Puck Brecher and Michael W. Myers.
260			_aHonolulu : _bUniversity of Hawaiʻi Press, _c2019.
300			_avi, 236 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe Wartime Destruction of the Japanese Diplomatic Record in Historical Perspective / Kazufumi Hamai and Peter Mauch -- Egalitarianism in Japanese Medical Insurance Programs in War and Peace, 1937 / Yoneyuki Sugita -- Rakugo's Negotiation of Militarism during the World War II Years / M.W. Shores -- Battlefield Comforts of Home: Gendered Commercialization of the Military Care Package in Wartime Japan, 1937 / Annika A. Culver -- Japanese Relations with Neutrals, 1944/1945: The Shift to Pragmatism / Florentino Rodao -- Japanese Military Strategy in the Asia-Pacific War: Three Historiographical Problems / Michael W. Myers -- Prophet in the Twilight: Yanaihara Tadao's Intellectual Resistance against the Asia-Pacific War / Yumi Murayama -- The Enemies among Us: Race, Trust, and Allied Internment in World War II Japan / A. Carly Buxton -- Eurasians and Racial Capital in a Race War / W. Puck Brecher
520			_a"This wide-ranging collection reassesses conventional understanding of Japan's Asia-Pacific War by defamiliarizing and expanding the rhetorical narrative. Its nine chapters, diverse in theme and method, are united in their goal to recover a measured historicity about the conflict by either introducing new areas of knowledge or reinterpreting existing ones. Collectively, they cast doubt on the war as familiar and recognizable. Following an introduction that problematizes timeworn narratives about a "unified Japan" and its "illegal war" or "race war," early chapters on the destruction of Japan's diplomatic records and government interest in an egalitarian health care policy before, during, and after the war oblige us to question selective histories and moral judgments about wartime Japan. The discussion then turns to artistic/cultural production and self-determination, specifically to Osaka rakugo performers who used comedy to contend with state oppression and to the role of women in creating care packages for soldiers abroad. Other chapters cast doubt on well-trod stereotypes (Japan's lack of pragmatism in its diplomatic relations with neutral nations and its irrational and fatalistic military leadership) and examine resistance to the war by a prominent Japanese Christian intellectual. The volume concludes with two nuanced responses to race in wartime Japan, one maintaining the importance of racial categories while recognizing the "performance of Japaneseness," the other observing that communities often reflected official government policies through nationality rather than race. Contrasting findings like these underscore the need to ask new questions and fill old gaps in our understanding of a historical event thatremains as provocative and divisive as ever"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zJapan _xHistoriography. _961184
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zJapan _xPublic opinion. _961185
650		0	_aPublic opinion _zJapan. _961186
700	1		_aBrecher, W. Puck, _eeditor. _961187
700	1		_aMyers, Michael W. _q(Michael Warren), _d1951- _eeditor. _961188
852	1		_aAyesha Abed Library _cGeneral Stacks
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