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Summary:

"Following the end of World War II in Asia, the Allied powers repatriated more than six million Japanese nationals from colonies and battlefields throughout Asia and deported more than a million colonial subjects from Japan to their countries of origin. Depicted at the time as a postwar measure related to the demobilization of defeated Japanese soldiers, this population transfer was a central element in the human dismantling of the Japanese empire that resonates with other post-colonial and post-imperial migrations in the twentieth century. Lori Watt analyzes how the human remnants of empire, those who were moved and those who were left behind, served as sites of negotiation in the process of the jettisoning of the colonial project and in the creation of new national identities in Japan. Through an exploration of the creation and uses of the figure of the repatriate, in political, social, and cultural realms, this study addresses the question of what happens when empire comes home."--Jacket.

Table of Contents:

• Repatriation, decolonization, and the transformations of postwar Japan
• New maps of Asia
• The co-production of the repatriate, 1945-49
• "The future of the Japanese race" and "argumentative types": women from Manchuria and men from Siberia
• "In the end, it was the Japanese who got us": repatriates in literature, songs, and film
• No longer Hikiagesha: "orphans and women left behind in China"
• Third party decolonization and post-imperial Japan.

Author/Creator:

Watt, Lori, 1965- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

When empire comes home: repatriation and reintegration in postwar Japan [by Watt, L.]

Related Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs; [volume] 317

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945 — Forced repatriation

Return migration — Japan — History — 20th century

Social integration — Japan — History — 20th century

Decolonization — Social aspects — Japan

National characteristics, Japanese

Japan — Social conditions — 1945-

Japan — History — Allied occupation, 1945-1952

World War (1939-1945)

Allied Occupation of Japan (Japan : 1945-1952)

Since 1900

Social integration

Decolonization — Social aspects

Decolonization

Social conditions

Refoulement

Return migration

Japan

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-231) and index.

Physical Description:

x, 238 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

D809.J3 W37 2009

ISBNs:

9780674033429 (cloth)
0674033426 (cloth)
9780674055988 (paperback)
0674055985 (paperback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009015124

OCLC Numbers:

261175580