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Author:

Igarashi, Yoshikuni, 1960- author.

Title:

Homecomings : the belated return of Japan's lost soldiers / Yoshikuni Igarashi.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

viii, 302 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Forced repatriation.
Repatriation--Japan--History--20th century.
Return migration--Japan--History--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
Prisoners of war--Japan--History--20th century.
Prisoners of war--Soviet Union--History--20th century.
Japan--Social conditions--1945-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Life after the war: former servicemen in postwar Japanese film -- The story of a man who was not allowed to come home: Gomikawa Junpei and the human condition (ningen no joken) -- Longing for home: Japanese POWs in Soviet captivity and their repatriation -- "No denunciation": Ishihara Yoshiro's Soviet internment experiences -- Lost and found in the South Pacific: postwar Japan's mania over Yokoi Shoichi's return -- Rescued from the past: Onoda Hiro'o's endless war -- The homecoming of the "last Japanese soldier".

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

ISBN:

0231177704
9780231177702

OCLC:

(OCoLC)947817051

LCCN:

2015050682

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)