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Homecomings : the belated return of Japan's lost soldiers / Yoshikuni Igarashi.

Author: Igarashi, Yoshikuni, 1960- author.

Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Descriptionviii, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Note:Life after the war: former servicemen in postwar Japanese film -- The story of a man who was not allowed to come home: Gomikawa Junpei and the human condition (ningen no joken) -- Longing for home: Japanese POWs in Soviet captivity and their repatriation -- "No denunciation": Ishihara Yoshiro's Soviet internment experiences -- Lost and found in the South Pacific: postwar Japan's mania over Yokoi Shoichi's return -- Rescued from the past: Onoda Hiro'o's endless war -- The homecoming of the "last Japanese soldier".

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-290) and index.



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Author:
Igarashi, Yoshikuni, 1960- author.
Series Statement
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced repatriation.
Repatriation -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Return migration -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
Prisoners of war -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Prisoners of war -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.
Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945-