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Author Podoler, Guy

Title War and Militarism in Modern Japan : Issues of History and Identity
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages)
Contents Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; 1 Japan's Tug-of-War After the Russo-Japanese War; 2 Facing a Dilemma: Japan's Jewish Policy in the Late 1930s; 3 Ethnicity and Gender in the Wartime Japanese Revue Theatre; 4 'The Terrible Weapon of the Gravely Injured' -- Mishima Yukio's Literature and the War; 5 Reenacting a Failed Revolution: The February 26 Incident in Theatre and Film, 1960-1980; 6 Imperial Japan and Its POWs: The Dilemma of Humaneness and National Identity
Summary A considerable amount of writing has been published on Japan at war in WWII. Scholars have been revisiting the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5. This volume examines Japan's twentieth-century approach to war and militarism in a wider perspective, bringing hitherto unexamined new themes and subject-matter under scrutiny up to the present day
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Subject War -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
Militarism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
Militarism.
War.
Japan.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004213005
9004213007
9781905246854
1905246854
128326577X
9781283265775