Fundamentals of military support in prewar Japan -- Medical treatment across the sea -- Comprehensive care behind the guns -- Protecting disabled veterans during wartime -- "White-robed heroes" in wartime mass culture -- Occupational rehabilitation
Summary
Thousands of wounded servicemen returned to Japan following the escalation of Japanese military aggression in China in July 1937. Tens of thousands would return home after Japan widened its war effort in 1939. This book relates the experiences of Japanese wounded soldiers and disabled veterans of Japan's "long" Second World War (from 1937 to 1945). It maps the terrain of Japanese military medicine and social welfare practices and establishes the similarities and differences that existed between Japanese and Western physical, occupational, and spiritual rehabilitation programs for war-wounded servicemen, notably amputees
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index
