Paul Rusch In Postwar Japan

Author : Andrew T. McDonald,Verlaine Stoner McDonald
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813176086

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Paul Rusch in Postwar Japan by Andrew T. McDonald,Verlaine Stoner McDonald Pdf

Paul Rusch first traveled from Louisville, Kentucky, to Tokyo in 1925 to help rebuild YMCA facilities in the wake of the Great Kanto earthquake. What was planned as a yearlong stay became his life's work as he joined with the Japan Episcopal Church to promote democracy and Western Christian ideals. Over the course of his remarkable life, Rusch served as a college professor and Episcopal missionary, and he was a catalyst for agricultural development, introducing dairy farming to highland Japan. In Paul Rusch in Postwar Japan, Andrew T. McDonald and Verlaine Stoner McDonald present Rusch's life as an epic story that crisscrosses two cultures, traversing war and peace, destruction and rebirth, private struggle and public triumph. As World War II approached, Rusch battled racial prejudice against Japanese Americans, yet also became an apologist for Japan's expansionist foreign policy. After Pearl Harbor, he was arrested as an enemy alien and witnessed the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. Upon his release to the US in 1942, he joined military intelligence and returned to Japan in that capacity during the US occupation. Though Rusch was of modest origins, he deftly climbed social and military ladders to befriend some of the most intriguing figures of the era, including prime ministers and members of the Japanese royal family. Though he is perhaps best remembered for introducing organized American football in Japan, his greatest legacy is the founding of the Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project (KEEP), a vehicle for feeding, educating, and uplifting the rural poor of highland Japan. Today his legacy continues to inspire KEEP in the twenty-first century to promote peace, cultural exchange, environmental sustainability, and ecological preservation in Japan and beyond.

Author : Paul John Bailey
Publisher : Blackwell Pub
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0631181016

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Postwar Japan by Paul John Bailey Pdf

This study examines Japan's development from a defeated nation in 1945 to an economic superpower in the 1980s. Drawing on recent research, it analyzes the significance and legacy of the American Occupation, as well as the political, social and economic fac

Author : Lucía Ruiz Rosendo,Jesús Baigorri-Jalón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254054

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Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting by Lucía Ruiz Rosendo,Jesús Baigorri-Jalón Pdf

The aspiration of an Atlas is to cover the whole world, by compiling cartographical material representing territories from across the five continents. This book intends to contribute to that ideally comprehensive, yet always unfinished, Atlas with pieces gathered from all of the Earth’s regions. However, its focus is not so much of a geographical nature (although maps and geographical reflections are not absent in its pages), but of a historical-analytical one. As such, the Atlas engages in the historical analysis of interpreters (of both language and cultures) in multiple interpreting settings and places, including in zones which are less frequently studied in specialized literature, in different historical periods and at various scales. All the interpreters described in the book share the ability to speak two or more languages and to use them as vehicles; otherwise, their individual socio-professional statuses vary so much that there is no similarity between a Venetian dragoman in Istanbul and a prisoner of war, or between a locally-recruited interpreter and a missionary. Each contributor has approached the specific spatial and temporal dimensions of their subject as perceived through their different methodological lenses. This multifaceted perspective, which is expected to provide fertile soil for future interdisciplinary research, has been possible thanks to a balanced combination of scholars from History and from Translation and Interpreting Studies.

Author : William P. Woodard
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Bruce Henderson
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525655824

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Bridge to the Sun by Bruce Henderson Pdf

One of the last, great untold stories of World War II—kept hidden for decades—even after most of the World War II records were declassified in 1972, many of the files remained untouched in various archives—a gripping true tale of courage and adventure from Bruce Henderson, master storyteller, historian, and New York Times best-selling author of Sons and Soldiers—the saga of the Japanese American U.S. Army soldiers who fought in the Pacific theater, in Burma, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, with their families back home in America, under U.S. Executive Order 9066, held behind barbed wire in government internment camps. After Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military was desperate to find Americans who spoke Japanese to serve in the Pacific war. They soon turned to the Nisei—first-generation U.S. citizens whose parents were immigrants from Japan. Eager to prove their loyalty to America, several thousand Nisei—many of them volunteering from the internment camps where they were being held behind barbed wire—were selected by the Army for top-secret training, then were rushed to the Pacific theater. Highly valued as expert translators and interrogators, these Japanese American soldiers operated in elite intelligence teams alongside Army infantrymen and Marines on the front lines of the Pacific war, from Iwo Jima to Burma, from the Solomons to Okinawa. Henderson reveals, in riveting detail, the harrowing untold story of the Nisei and their major contributions in the war of the Pacific, through six Japanese American soldiers. After the war, these soldiers became translators and interrogators for war crime trials, and later helped to rebuild Japan as a modern democracy and a pivotal U.S. ally.

Author : Ivan P. Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315290553

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Bamboozled! by Ivan P. Hall Pdf

As the influence of the United States in Asia declines with the end of the Cold War, America must look more to brains than military might in achieving our objectives in the region. But after repeatedly allowing Japan - our closest ally in Asia - to mislead us intellectually and psychologically, how well are we prepared to deal with less friendly emerging powers like China and India? Based on three decades of on-the-spot observation and participation in Japan, Ivan Hall's provocative work draws the reader into a world of intellectual manipulation and gullibility, false images, emotional blackmail, financial beguilement, and fatuous expectations. It illuminates the many ways that American ideological hubris and Japanese pleading for special treatment combine to deprive our trans-Pacific dialogue of the honesty, openness, and plain common sense of our trans-Atlantic intellectual ties with Europe.

Author : Tyson Reeder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000516678

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The Routledge History of U.S. Foreign Relations by Tyson Reeder Pdf

The Routledge History of U.S. Foreign Relations provides a comprehensive view of U.S. diplomacy and foreign affairs from the founding to the present. With contributions from recognized experts from around the world, this volume unveils America’s long and complicated history on the world stage. It presents the United States’ evolution from a weak player, even a European pawn, to a global hegemonic leader over the course of two and a half centuries. The contributors offer an expansive vision of U.S. foreign relations—from U.S.-Native American diplomacy in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the post-9/11 war on terror. They shed new light on well-known events and suggest future paths of research, and they capture lesser-known episodes that invite reconsideration of common assumptions about America’s place in the world. Bringing these discussions to a single forum, the book provides a strong reference source for scholars and students who seek to understand the broad themes and changing approaches to the field. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of U.S. history, political science, international relations, conflict resolution, and public policy, amongst other areas.

Author : Jon Livingston,Joe Moore,Felicia Oldfather
Publisher : New York : Pantheon Books
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951001099857H

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Postwar Japan, 1945 to the Present by Jon Livingston,Joe Moore,Felicia Oldfather Pdf

Author : Andrew Gordon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0520074750

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Postwar Japan as History by Andrew Gordon Pdf

As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors describe an ongoing historical process marked by unexpected changes, such as Japan's extraordinary economic growth, and unanticipated continuities, such as the endurance of conservative rule. --From publisher's description.

Author : Curtis Anderson Gayle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415559393

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Women's History and Local Community in Postwar Japan by Curtis Anderson Gayle Pdf

This book examines the emergence of women's history-writing groups in Japan in the decade following the end of World War II and the way in which these versions of history-writing went on to subsequently eclipse and outlive those being offered by Marxist historians.

Author : Yoshikuni Igarashi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691049120

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Bodies of Memory by Yoshikuni Igarashi Pdf

Japan and the United States became close political allies so quickly after the end of World War II, that it seemed as though the two countries had easily forgotten the war they had fought. Here Yoshikuni Igarashi offers a provocative look at how Japanese postwar society struggled to understand its war loss and the resulting national trauma, even as forces within the society sought to suppress these memories. Igarashi argues that Japan's nationhood survived the war's destruction in part through a popular culture that expressed memories of loss and devastation more readily than political discourse ever could. He shows how the desire to represent the past motivated Japan's cultural productions in the first twenty-five years of the postwar period. Japanese war experiences were often described through narrative devices that downplayed the war's disruptive effects on Japan's history. Rather than treat these narratives as obstacles to historical inquiry, Igarashi reads them along with counter-narratives that attempted to register the original impact of the war. He traces the tensions between remembering and forgetting by focusing on the body as the central site for Japan's production of the past. This approach leads to fascinating discussions of such diverse topics as the use of the atomic bomb, hygiene policies under the U.S. occupation, the monstrous body of Godzilla, the first Western professional wrestling matches in Japan, the transformation of Tokyo and the athletic body for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and the writer Yukio Mishima's dramatic suicide, while providing a fresh critical perspective on the war legacy of Japan.

Author : Justin Jesty
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501715068

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Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan by Justin Jesty Pdf

Highlighting the transformational nature of the early postwar, Jesty deftly contrasts it with the relative stasis, consolidation, and homogenization of the 1960s.

Author : Jonathan D. Mackintosh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415421867

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Homosexuality and Manliness in Postwar Japan by Jonathan D. Mackintosh Pdf

This book examines the history of the relationship between male homosexuality and conceptions of manliness in postwar Japan. It provides a detailed account of the formative years of the homo magazine genre in the 1970s, and explores its evolution in subsequent years, analyzing key issues including homophobia; gay liberation; male-male sex, love and friendship; the masculine body; and manly identity.

Author : 山本正,Akira Iriye,Makoto Iokibe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015064894895

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Philanthropy and Reconciliation;Rebuilding Postwar U. S.-Japan Relations by 山本正,Akira Iriye,Makoto Iokibe Pdf

The role of philanthropy in postwar U.S.-Japan relations, 1945-1975 : an overview / Yamamoto Tadashi -- The role of philanthropy and civil society in U.S. foreign relations / Iriye Akira -- U.S.-Japan intellectual exchange : the relationship between government and private foundations / Iokibe Makoto -- The evolving role of American foundations in Japan : an institutional perspective / Kimberly Gould Ashizawa -- American philanthropy in postwar Japan : an analysis of grants to Japanese institutions and individuals / Wada Jun -- Promoting the study of the United States in Japan / James Gannon -- Understanding the "Other" : foundation support for Japanese studies in the United States / Kimberly Gould Ashizawa -- The development of grassroots international exchange in Japan and the impact of American philanthropy / Meniu Toshihiro -- U.S.-Japan business networks and prewar philanthropy : implications for postwar U.S.-Japan relations / Kimura Masato -- Japanese philanthropy : its origins and impact on U.S.-Japan relations / Katsumata Hideko.

Author : Rodger Swearingen
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press Publi
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008535927

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The Soviet Union and Postwar Japan by Rodger Swearingen Pdf

The Soviet Union and Postwar Japan is a magisterial survey of the problems--ideological, political, cultural, diplomatic, economic, and military--which exist between these two major powers. It is based upon Professor Swearingen's unusual first-hand knowledge of this area and issues, drawing upon his service with the U.S. State Department, his work of fourteen years as an analyst for the RAND Corporation, and his comprehensive familiarity with the technical and often inaccessible specialized documentation on Japanese-Russian relations. His findings are lucidly presented, and are supplemented by summaries or the full text of treaties, many of them not previously published in English. This book will prove invaluable not only to students of international relations, Soviet foreign policy, and recent Japanese history, but to adventurous and inquiring minds in teaching, government service, business, and journalism-in short, to all those who seek an authoritative, yet fascinating guide to crucial and complex issues. General readers, as well, will derive information and insights from Professor Swearingen's perceptive and highly readable book.