Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan write by Yukiko Koshiro. This book was released on 1999. Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The U.S. occupation of Japan transformed a brutal war charged with overt racism into an amicable peace in which the issue of race seemed to have disappeared. During the Occupation, the problem of racial relations between Americans and Japanese was suppressed and the mutual racism transformed into something of a taboo so that the two former enemies could collaborate in creating democracy in postwar Japan. In the 1980s, however, when Japan increased its investment in the American market, the world witnessed a revival of the rhetoric of U.S.-Japanese racial confrontation. Koshiro argues that this perceived economic aggression awoke the dormant racism that lay beneath the deceptively smooth cooperation between the two cultures. This pathbreaking study is the first to explore the issue of racism in U.S.-Japanese relations. With access to unexplored sources in both Japanese and English, Koshiro is able to create a truly international and cross-cultural study of history and international relations.
Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan
Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan write by Yukiko Koshiro. This book was released on 1999. Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The U.S. occupation of Japan transformed a brutal war charged with overt racism into an amicable peace in which the issue of race seemed to have disappeared. During the Occupation, the problem of racial relations between Americans and Japanese was suppressed and the mutual racism transformed into something of a taboo so that the two former enemies could collaborate in creating democracy in postwar Japan. In the 1980s, however, when Japan increased its investment in the American market, the world witnessed a revival of the rhetoric of U.S.-Japanese racial confrontation. Koshiro argues that this perceived economic aggression awoke the dormant racism that lay beneath the deceptively smooth cooperation between the two cultures. This pathbreaking study is the first to explore the issue of racism in U.S.-Japanese relations. With access to unexplored sources in both Japanese and English, Koshiro is able to create a truly international and cross-cultural study of history and international relations.
Allied Occupation of Japan
Allied Occupation of Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Allied Occupation of Japan write by Eiji Takemae. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Allied Occupation of Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the end of the American-led Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-52), The Allied Occupation of Japan is a sweeping history of the revolutionary reforms that transformed Japan and the remarkable men and women, American and Japanese, who implemented them.
Legacies of the U.S. Occupation of Japan
Legacies of the U.S. Occupation of Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legacies of the U.S. Occupation of Japan write by Duccio Basosi. This book was released on 2015-04-01. Legacies of the U.S. Occupation of Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Six decades after the end of the occupation of mainland Japan, this volume approaches the theme of the occupation’s legacies. Rather than just being a matter of administrative practices and international relations, the consequences of the US occupation of Japan transcended both the seven years of its formal duration and the bilateral relations between the two countries. Rich with fresh analyses on a range of topics, including transnational and comparative views on the occupation, the influence of Japan on the United States as well as the reverse, international perspectives on this “odd couple”, and the memory of the occupation in both countries, this book provides a greater understanding of the transtemporal, transnational and transcultural legacies of one of the crucial events of the 20th century.
Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War
Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War write by W. Puck Brecher. This book was released on 2019-10-31. Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This wide-ranging collection seeks to reassess 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, compelling readers to view it with fresh eyes. 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 that, after more than seventy years, remains as provocative and divisive as ever. Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War will find a ready audience among World War II historians as well as specialists in war and society, social history, and the growing fields of material culture and civic history.
