The Dismantling of Japan's Empire in East Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Deimperialization, Postwar Legitimation and Imperial Afterlife
Redaktion: Kushner, Barak; Muminov, Sherzod

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The end of Japan's empire appeared to happen very suddenly and cleanly - but, as this book shows, it was in fact very messy, with a long period of establishing or re-establishing the postwar order. Moreover, as the authors argue, empires have afterlives, which, in the case of Japan's empire, is not much studied. This book considers the details of deimperialization, including the repatriation of Japanese personnel, the redrawing of boundaries, issues to do with prisoners of war and war criminals and new arrangements for democratic political institutions, for media and for the regulation of trade. It also discusses the continuing impact of empire on the countries ruled or occupied by Japan, where, as a result of Japanese management and administration, both formal and informal, patterns of behavior and attitudes were established that continued subsequently. This was true in Japan itself, where returning imperial personnel had to be absorbed and adjustments made to imperial thinking, and in present-day East Asia, where the shadow of Japan's empire still lingers. This legacy of unresolved issues concerning the correct relationship of Japan, an important, energetic, outgoing nation and a potential regional "hub," with the rest of the region not comfortably settled in this era, remains a fulcrum of regional dispute.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317284796
• Artikelnr.: 47386690

Autorenporträt

Barak Kushner teaches Japanese history at the University of Cambridge and is the author of Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice (winner of the American Historical Association's 2016 John K. Fairbank Prize). Sherzod Muminov is a Research Associate in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

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
2. "De-imperialization" in Early Postwar Japan: Adjusting and Transforming
Institutions of Empire
3. Imperial Loss and Japan's Search for Postwar Legitimacy
4. Collapse of the Japanese Empire and the Great Migrations: Repatriation,
Assimilation, and Remaining Behind
Part II: War Criminals, POWS, and the Imperial Breakdown
5. The Shifting Politics of Guilt: the Campaign for the Release of Japanese
War Criminals
6. Allied POWs in Korea: Life and Death during the Pacific War
7. Carceral Geographies of Japan's Vanishing Empire: War Criminals' Prisons
in Asia
8. Prejudice, Punishment and Propaganda: Post-Imperial Japan and the Soviet
Versions of History and Justice in East Asia, 1945-1956
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
10. The transformation of a Manchukuo imperial bureaucrat to postwar
supporter of the Yoshida Doctrine: the case of Shiina Etsusabur¿
11. North Korean Nation Building and Japanese Imperialism: People's Nation,
"People's Diplomacy" and the Japanese Technicians
12. Humanitarian Hero or Communist Stooge? The Ambivalent Japanese
Reception of Li Dequan in 1954
Part IV: Media and the Imperial Aftermath
13. The "Pacifist" Magazine Sekai: A Barometer of Postwar Thought
14. Post-imperial Broadcasting Networks in China and Manchuria
15. Parting the Bamboo Curtain: Japanese Cold War Film Exchange with China
Comparative Epilogue
16. Germany as a role model? Coming to terms with Nazi War deeds, 1945-2015