The end of Japan's empire appeared to happen very suddenly and cleanly – but, as this book shows, it was in fact very messy, with a long period of establishing or re-establishing the postwar order. Moreover, as the authors argue, empires have afterlives, which, in the case of Japan's empire, is not much studied. This book considers the details of deimperialization, including the repatriation of Japanese personnel, the redrawing of boundaries, issues to do with prisoners of war and war criminals and new arrangements for democratic political institutions, for media and for the regulation of trade. It also discusses the continuing impact of empire on the countries ruled or occupied by Japan, where, as a result of Japanese management and administration, both formal and informal, patterns of behavior and attitudes were established that continued subsequently. This was true in Japan itself, where returning imperial personnel had to be absorbed and adjustments made to imperial thinking, and in present-day East Asia, where the shadow of Japan's empire still lingers. This legacy of unresolved issues concerning the correct relationship of Japan, an important, energetic, outgoing nation and a potential regional "hub," with the rest of the region not comfortably settled in this era, remains a fulcrum of regional dispute.

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Routledge

Year

2016

eBook ISBN

9781317284796

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Topic

Social Sciences

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Regional Studies

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Social Sciences

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2.28 Incident, 26, 31. See also February 28 Incident

17th Area Army (Japan), 22. See also Imperial Japanese Army

38th parallel, 19–23, 75, 129, 201–2. See also Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK); Korean War

Abakumov, Viktor, 158. See also Khabarovsk War Crimes Trial; Unit 731

Abe Genki, 154. See also Rada Camp

Abe Nobuyuki, 117. See also Auld Lang Syne; Hodge, John R.; Round, Guy

Abe Yoshishige, 243–44, 246–47. See also Dōshinkai (“Group of One Mind”); Iwanami Shigeo

Adenauer, Konrad, 305–6, 308

Adenauer era, 306, 308

Aegukka, 117

Afro-Asian Film Festival (AAFF), 290, 292

Akao Bin, 227

Album of Ordeals (Shiren no arubamu), 136, 140. See also Balikpapan; Jakarta; Hong Kong; Manila; Rangoon; Singapore; Sugamo Prison

Algeria, 31

Alien Registration Ordinance, 79

Allied Council for Japan, 271. See also General Headquarters (GHQ); Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP)

Allied Southeast Asia Command, 129

All Japan Flower-Arranging Federation (Zen nihon kadō), 99

All-Japan Prefectural and Municipal Workers’ Union, 250

American Alliance, 192

American Civil War, 62

American Occupation, 39, 174, 233, 246, 255, 261, 271. See also General Headquarters (GHQ), Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP)

American Red Cross, 116

Anpo, 175, 177. See also Ikeda Hayato; Kishi Nobusuke; Tabata Shigejirō

anti-American, 44, 178, 221

anti-Communism, 193, 226, 233

Anti-Epidemic Unit, 157. See also Harbin; International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE); Ishii Shirō; Kawashima Kiyoshi; Karasawa Tomio; Khabarovsk War Crimes Trial; Unit 731

Anti-Imperialist and Anti-Feudalist Revolution, 203

Anti-Japanese guerrilla groups (Dohi), 41. See ...

Cover
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Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Introduction: the unevenness of the end of empire
SECTION ONE The new postwar order: meaning and significance
SECTION TWO War criminals, POWs, and the imperial breakdown
SECTION THREE Diplomacy, law, and the end of empire
SECTION FOUR Media and the imperial aftermath
Comparative epilogue
Index

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