This wide-ranging collection seeks to reassess conventional understanding of Japan’s Asia-Pacific War by defamiliarizing
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Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
1. The Wartime Destruction of the Japanese Diplomatic Record in Historical Perspective
2. Egalitarianism in Japanese Medical Insurance Programs in War and Peace, 1937–1946
3. Rakugo’s Negotiation of Militarism during the World War II Years
4. Battlefield Comforts of Home
5. Japanese Relations with Neutrals, 1944–1945
6. Japanese Military Strategy in the Asia-Pacific War
7. Prophet in the Twilight
8. The Enemies among Us
9. Eurasians and Racial Capital in a “Race War”
Contributors
Index