Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation
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ArtikelSerie: Utgivningsinformation: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2007Innehållstyp: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9789048532636
- Time period qualifiers
- c 1500 onwards to present day
- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
- Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950
- c 1940 to c 1949
- c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period)
- History and Archaeology
- History
- Military history
- Modern warfare
- Specific wars and campaigns
- Second World War
- History
- Japan
- Occupation
- Oita Prefecture
- World War 2
- World War II
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This book presents an unforgettable up-close account of the effects of World War II and the subsequent American occupation on Oita prefecture, through firsthand accounts from more than forty Japanese men and women who lived there. The interviewees include students, housewives, nurses, midwives, teachers, journalists, soldiers, sailors, Kamikaze pilots, and munitions factory workers. Their stories range from early, spirited support for the war through the devastating losses of friends and family members to air raids and into periods of hunger and fear of the American occupiers. The personal accounts are buttressed by archival materials; the result is an unprecedented picture of the war as experienced in a single region of Japan.
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