Japanese Fiction Of The Allied Occupation

Author : Sharalyn Orbaugh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004155466

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Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation by Sharalyn Orbaugh Pdf

The reconstruction of identity in post World War II Japan after the trauma of war, defeat and occupation forms the subject of this latest volume in Brill's monograph series Japanese Studies Library. Closely examining the role of fiction produced during the Allied Occupation, Sharalyn Orbaugh begins with an examination of the rhetoric of wartime propaganda, and explores how elements of that rhetoric were redeployed postwar as authors produced fiction linked to the redefinition of what it means to be Japanese. Drawing on tools and methods from trauma studies, gender and race studies, and film and literary theory, the study traces important nodes in the construction and maintenance of discourses of identity through attention to writers' representations of the gaze, the body, language, and social performance. This book will be of interest to any student of the literary or cultural history of World War II and its aftermath. "Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation was awarded Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007,"

Author : Eiji Takemae
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0826415210

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Allied Occupation of Japan by Eiji Takemae Pdf

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.

Author : 栄治·竹前
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Japan
ISBN : 0485113147

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Inside GHQ by 栄治·竹前 Pdf

Japan's success in charting a new course in the years following World War II stems from the reforming impetus of General Headquarters/Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (GHQ/SCAP), headquarters of the American-led allied occupation that indirectly governed Japan for nearly seven years following World War II. Inside GHQ is the story of the reforms of the Occupation period and of the remarkable men and women, Japanese and American, who implemented them. Eiji Takemae introduces a wealth of new material on the wartime origins of Occupation policies, the British Commonwealth Force, the Kurils, Okinawa, the Korean minority, A-bomb survivors, war crimes, the Constitution, education, and health and welfare. This book is the definitive account of the occupation--its strengths, shortcomings, and failures--and provides insight into the state of contemporary Japan.

Author : Edwin M. Martin
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000124535

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The Allied Occupation of Japan by Edwin M. Martin Pdf

Author : Donald Richie
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462912803

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This Scorching Earth by Donald Richie Pdf

This historical novel is set in post-WWII Japan. The Allied Occupation of Japan was more than an amazing military operation: it also created one of the most singular civilizations of modern history. It was made up of some of America's best minds and some of its worst, of some genuine idealists and some who simply "never had it so good," of women hungry for men, men hungry for power, and a fortunate leavening of ordinary, decent people. It was an astonishing and often terrifying little empire—now as dead as those of the Medes and Persians. All these characters—and many more—are skillfully set into the living mosaic which was the Occupation of Japan, in a dramatic story which pulls no punches. And if the reader thinks he detects himself or his friends (or enemies) among its pages, he will agree this historical novel is quite historical. But it's not often that history gets such controversial, sometimes infuriating, often hilarious, and always stimulating novel—which builds up to a final climax guaranteed to rouse the most jaded reader.

Author : Marlene J. Mayo,J. Thomas Rimer,H. Eleanor Kerkham
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824824334

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War, Occupation, and Creativity by Marlene J. Mayo,J. Thomas Rimer,H. Eleanor Kerkham Pdf

This collection of essays, based on international collaboration by scholars in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States, is the first systematic, interdisciplinary attempt to address the social, political, and spiritual significance of the modern arts both in Japan and its empire between 1920 and 1960. These forty years, punctuated by war, occupation, and reconstruction, were turbulent and brutal, but also important and even productive for the arts. The volume takes a trans-war (rather than an inter-war) approach, beginning with the cultural politics of painting, poetry, and fiction in Japanese-occupied Korea and Taiwan following World War I. The narrative continues with the impact of Japan's war in China and the Pacific War on major Japanese novelists, playwrights, painters, and filmmakers, before moving on to the final stage, Japan's defeat and initial recovery. During the Allied Occupation of Japan and in its aftermath, Japanese artists both confronted and dismissed the question of war responsibility by preserving, reviving, or reinventing the political cartoon, Kabuki drama, literature of the body, and the aesthetics of decadence. Contributors: Haruko Taya Cook, Kyoko Hirano, Youngna Kim (Kim Youngna), H. Eleanor Kerkham, David R. McCann, Marlene J. Mayo, J. Thomas Rimer, Mark H. Sandler, Rinjiro Sodei, Wang Hsui-hsiung (Wang Xiuxiong), Alan Wolfe, Angelina C. Yee.

Author : Frank Joseph Shulman,Joint Committee on Japanese Studies
Publisher : Chicago : American Library Association
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010231499

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The Allied Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952 by Frank Joseph Shulman,Joint Committee on Japanese Studies Pdf

Author : William P. Woodard
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Allied Occupation of Japan 1945-1952 and Japanese Religions by William P. Woodard Pdf

Author : Bowen C. Dees
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134247820

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The Allied Occupation and Japan's Economic Miracle by Bowen C. Dees Pdf

There is virtually nothing - until the arrival of this study - addressing the significance of the enormous contributions in science and technology towards the realization of Japan's 'economic miracle' during the occupation period. Describes the Scientific and Technical Division of McArthur's GHQ.

Author : Mark Howard Sandler,Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0295976462

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The Confusion Era by Mark Howard Sandler,Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) Pdf

Six contributors discuss the state of Japanese arts during the allied occupation after the second World War. Topics include missteps by occupation censors, caution and experimentation on the part of nine artists of the era, the preservation of cultural property, and the conflicted roles of women and

Author : Hiroshi Masuda
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801466182

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MacArthur in Asia by Hiroshi Masuda Pdf

General Douglas MacArthur's storied career is inextricably linked to Asia. His father, Arthur, served as Military Governor of the Philippines while Douglas was a student at West Point, and the younger MacArthur would serve several tours of duty in that country over the next four decades, becoming friends with several influential Filipinos, including the country's future president, Emanuel L. Quezon. In 1935, he became Quezon's military advisor, a post he held after retiring from the U.S. Army and at the time of Japan’s invasion of 1941. As Supreme Commander for the Southwest Pacific, MacArthur led American forces throughout the Pacific War. He officially accepted Japan's surrender in 1945 and would later oversee the Allied occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951. He then led the UN Command in the Korean War from 1950 to 1951, until he was dismissed from his post by President Truman. In MacArthur in Asia, the distinguished Japanese historian Hiroshi Masuda offers a new perspective on the American icon, focusing on his experiences in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea and highlighting the importance of the general’s staff—the famous "Bataan Boys" who served alongside MacArthur throughout the Asian arc of his career—to both MacArthur’s and the region’s history. First published to wide acclaim in Japanese in 2009 and translated into English for the first time, this book uses a wide range of sources—American and Japanese, official records and oral histories—to present a complex view of MacArthur, one that illuminates his military decisions during the Pacific campaign and his administration of the Japanese Occupation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Japanese language
ISBN : UVA:X001189662

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Japanese Phrase Book Designed Especially for Use of Allied Occupation Forces by Anonim Pdf

Author : William H Bridges
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472054428

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Playing in the Shadows by William H Bridges Pdf

Playing in the Shadows considers the literature engendered by postwar Japanese authors’ robust cultural exchanges with African Americans and African American literature. The Allied Occupation brought an influx of African American soldiers and culture to Japan, which catalyzed the writing of black characters into postwar Japanese literature. This same influx fostered the creation of organizations such as the Kokujin kenkyu no kai (The Japanese Association for Negro Studies) and literary endeavors such as the Kokujin bungaku zenshu (The Complete Anthology of Black Literature). This rich milieu sparked Japanese authors’—Nakagami Kenji and Oe Kenzaburo are two notable examples—interest in reading, interpreting, critiquing, and, ultimately, incorporating the tropes and techniques of African American literature and jazz performance into their own literary works. Such incorporation leads to literary works that are “black” not by virtue of their representations of black characters, but due to their investment in the possibility of technically and intertextually black Japanese literature. Will Bridges argues that these “fictions of race” provide visions of the way that postwar Japanese authors reimagine the ascription of race to bodies—be they bodies of literature, the body politic, or the human body itself.

Author : Robert E. Ward,Yoshikazu Sakamoto
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824880729

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Democratizing Japan by Robert E. Ward,Yoshikazu Sakamoto Pdf

The value of this book resides in the interweaving of Japanese and American scholarship and viewpoints on a number of aspects of the total Occupation experience that are of critical importance to a historical explanation of its accomplishments or shortfalls. Attention is given to the new constitution of 1946-1947, the most fundamental institutional change wrought by the Occupation's major programs of institutional and procedural reform and the formation and early development of the conservative and reformist parties.

Author : John W. Dower
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393345247

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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. Dower, whom Stephen E. Ambrose has called "America's foremost historian of the Second World War in the Pacific," gives us the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, in a way never before attempted, from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes and fears of men and women in every walk of life. Already regarded as the benchmark in its field, Embracing Defeat is a work of colossal scholarship and history of the very first order. John W. Dower is the Elting E. Morison Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for War Without Mercy.