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1 online resource (xx, 195 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191) and index. |
| Contents |
The Japanese Army and prisoners of war / Philip Towle -- The Changi POW camp and the Burma-Thailand Railway / Robert Havers -- Allied POWs and the Burma-Thailand Railway / Clifford Kinvig -- Understanding the enemy : military intelligence, political warfare and Japanese prisiners of war in Australia, 1942-45 / Kent Federovich -- POWs and international law / Hisakazu Fujita -- Culture, race and power in Japan's wartime empire / Susan C. Townsend -- Japan's racial identity in the Second World War : the cultural context of Japanese treatment of POWs / Harumi Furuya -- Japanese treatment of British prisoners : the historical context / Yoichi Kibata -- Religion, the Red Cross and Japanese treatment of POWs / Margaret Kosuge -- The post-war treatment of Japanese overseas nationals / Hideo Kobayashi -- Towards reconciliation : Japanese reactions to Ernest Gordon / Kazuaki Saito. |
| Summary |
During the Second World War the Japanese were stereotyped in the European and American imagination as fanatical, cruel and almost inhuman. This view is unhistorical and simplistic. It fails to recognise that the Japanese were acting at a time of supreme national crisis and it fails to take account of their own historical tradition. The essays in Japanese Prisoners of War, by both Western and Japanese scholars, explore the question from a balanced viewpoint, looking at it in the light of longer-term influences, notably the Japanese attempt to establish themselves as an honorary white race. The book also addresses the other side of the question, looking at the treatment of Japanese prisoners in Allied captivity -- book jacket. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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World War (1939-1945) |
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Prisoners of war -- Europe.
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Prisoners of war. |
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Europe. |
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Prisoners of war -- United States.
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United States. |
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Prisoners of war -- Australia.
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Australia. |
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Prisoners of war -- Southeast Asia.
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Southeast Asia. |
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Southeast Asia -- History.
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History. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Southeast Asia.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Southeast Asia.
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Japan -- History -- 1912-1945. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Towle, Philip, 1945-
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Kosuge, Margaret.
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Kibata, Yōichi, 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Japanese prisoners of war. London ; New York : Hambledon and London, 2000 1852851929 (DLC) 99058580 (OCoLC)42921325 |
| ISBN |
9780826439789 (electronic book) |
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0826439780 (electronic book) |
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1852851929 |
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9781852851927 |
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