Japan at War: An Oral History: Amazon.de: Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore F. Cook: Englische Bücher

Taschenbuch: 496 Seiten
Verlag: New Pr; Auflage: Anniv. (Oktober 1993)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1565840399
ISBN-13: 978-1565840393
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 21 x 14,2 x 3,2 cm

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Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 254.210 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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Haunting voices from a dark, disgraceful past, which afford a stunning and revelatory panorama of Japan's WW II experience. Counting its aggressions in Manchuria and China, Japan (whose death toll exceeded three million) was in constant battle from 1931 through V-J Day. Cook and her husband (History/William Paterson College) spent nearly four years gathering reminiscences from dozens of ostensibly ordinary people who survived the lengthy conflict variously called the Pacific, Greater East Asia, or 15-Year War. Adding just enough background and big-picture perspectives to give coherence to first-person narratives, the authors largely allow their sources to speak for themselves. Among those willing to tell their typically grim stories are combat veterans of campaigns from Nanking to Okinawa; builders of the infamous Burma railway;, unrepentant officers; technicians who participated in barbarous medical experiments on POWs; journalists whose dispatches extolling "victories of the spirit" owed more to the military regime's police powers than to reality; cabaret dancers; diplomats; and home-front victims of America's incendiary as well as atom-bomb assaults. Also represented are troops who served with brutal occupation forces; the widow of a kamikaze pilot; conscripts trained as human torpedoes; Koreans dragooned into rear-area labor battalions; and those convicted of war crimes. About the only significant groups not included in the wide-ranging canvas are the industrialists who supplied an overmatched imperial war machine and members of resistance groups. Like its Axis partner, Japan tolerated no dissent and was able to command consensus support from an unquestioningly obedient populace that, notwithstanding the disclosures at hand, still appears capable of collective denial when it comes to assuming even regional responsibility for the horrors of a global conflagration. Oral history of a compellingly high order. (Kirkus Reviews)

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This work of oral history captures the remarkable story of ordinary Japanese people during World War II. Haruko Taya and Theodore Cook take readers from the Japanese attacks on China in the 1930s to the Japanese homefront during the inhuman raids on Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, offering glimpses of how this century's most violent conflict affected the lives of the Japanese population. "Japan at War" documents a huge range of experiences. In constructing this oral history, the authors encountered every form of human response: those who held to their principles, and those who gave in to opportunism, those who controlled events, and the majority who were powerless. Soldiers and sailors caught in the jungles of New Guinea and on the seas around the Philippines; unrepentent generals, as well as conscripts whose political or intellectual training made them unwilling participants in the horrors wrought by their country; Japanese newspapermen, film-makers, artists, cabaret dancers and diplomats: all speak candidly about their wartime experiences, adding a whole new dimension to our understanding of what the war actually meant to the Japanese people and transcending all the stereotypes of kamikaze pilots and human torpedoes.

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Understanding the Orient 4. Juli 2000

Von Arnold Howard

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World War Two was the most significant event of the 20th century. This book vastly increases one's understanding of that war. After reading it, you will feel as if you had sat down with dozens of Japanese war survivors, who share their memories of that conflict.

Some of the interviews do not ring true--such as the Japanese officer who says they killed only a few hundred Chinese civilians in Nanking.

Other interviews make one understand why the Koreans hate the Japanese.

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Captivating 17. Mai 2000

Von CL

The Cooks have done an excellent job in capturing the experience of the Pacific War. It's refreshing to find oral history and primary resources at the heart of this book. The stories are moving, the images are vivid, and the language is simplified. Thank you

Shocking hidden stories of the people of Japan 22. August 1999

Von Ein Kunde

As an American Nisei (2nd generation) Japanese american, my parents experienced the terror of the civilian firebombing at the end of World War II. Since they, as many, are reluctant to talk about it, this book helped me to capture some of their experiences and come to a greater understanding of an extremely difficult time. The irrefutability of oral history as the direct retelling of recollection and experience creates a context for telling these heretofore untold stories. It provides a sense of the greater story in a way that documentary and narrative historiographic contexts told from the perspective of the "winner" are unable to capture.