Japanese Army stragglers and memories of the War in Japan, 1950-1975 / Beatrice Trefalt.

SeriesRoutledgeCurzon studies in the modern history of Asia ; 13
Contents The shared past: mobilisation for war -- Creating stragglers: demobilisation, 1945-1950 -- 'Five years on mice and potatoes': exotic stragglers, 1950-1952 -- 'Living spirits of the war dead', 1954-1956 -- 'But they are not gorillas', 1959-1960 -- The past in the present: Yokoi Shōichi returns from Guam, 1972 -- 'In the jungle, the war was still going on': Kozuka Kinshichi, Onoda Hirō and the last of Lubang, 1972-1974 -- Nakamura Teruo: the last straggler and the issue of imperialism -- Conclusion -- Appendix: number and provenance of repatriates to Japan, 1945-1995.
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LCCN 2006297721
ISBN0415312183 (cased)