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Book Synopsis The Voyage to Occupied Japan by : Terry Carnes
Download or read book The Voyage to Occupied Japan written by Terry Carnes and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the experiences of a young US Army lieutenant, newly graduated from West Point at the close of WWII as he took his top-notch military training to Japan to participate in the occupation and rebuilding of that country after its near total destruction during the war. But the book is not about the rebuilding of Japan. Rather, it records the personal experience of being packed onto a troop ship and transported across the Great Northern Route of the Pacific Ocean to a layover in the Philippines and then to the final destination in Japan. He recorded the sites and sounds of mobilization, the physical hardships of the transport, moments of relief, and the arrival in Japan, via the war-torn Philippines, only to come face-to-face with the utter destruction of the surroundings in which they would carry out their new assignments. With his camera and his writing, he recorded life among the surviving people.
Book Synopsis The American Occupation of Japan by : Michael Schaller
Download or read book The American Occupation of Japan written by Michael Schaller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987-10-22 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel and intriguing book, Michael Schaller traces the origins of the Cold War in Asia to the postwar occupation of Japan by U.S. troops. Determined to secure Japan as a bulwark against both Soviet expansion and Asian revolution, the U.S. instituted ambitious social and economic reforms under the direction of the flamboyant Occupation Commander, General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur was later denounced by the Truman Administration as a "bunko artist" who had wrecked Japan's economy and opened it to Communist influence, and power was shifted to Japan's old elite. Cut off from its former trading partners, which were now all Communist-controlled, Japan, with U.S. backing, turned its attention to the rich but unstable Southeast Asian states. The stage was thus set for U.S. intervention in China, Korea, and Vietnam.
Book Synopsis A Visit to Occupied Japan by : Laura Robinson
Download or read book A Visit to Occupied Japan written by Laura Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis After the Flash by : Linda Rosenbery
Download or read book After the Flash written by Linda Rosenbery and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical narrative reveals the life of Linda, a young woman struggling to come to grips with her rudderless existence, of her stumbling back to her hometown after a failed marriage, and having to face the judgments of a stoic Japanese mother. Chieko’s life is in stark contrast, having survived the most horrific last days of World War II, and having come of age in occupied Japan where she made a living working in a hostess club serving drinks and dancing with servicemen. Linda wants to write her mother’s story, and Chieko always says no. But then something happens between Chieko and Linda as they begin to bond through Linda’s apprenticeship in Chieko’s flower garden. On those gardening days, after the work is done, they sit at the kitchen table where Chieko quite openly weaves for her daughter the threads of her life, including her determination to survive. Linda at times feels traumatized by her mother Chieko’s descriptions of the war, and most of the time Linda ends her kitchen table talks and heads to the local bar to get drunk. One spring day in the fourth year of their kitchen table talks, Chieko says to Linda as they sip scotch, “If you really must tell my story, tell it like the playwright, Eugene O’Neill, because he knew sadness.” Even though Linda hears it in her mother voice each time she speaks about her life, the sorrow in her tone routinely breaks Linda down. But Chieko is funny, too, with stories of coming of age at a time in Japan when most believed romance and life in paradise was a promise made in American films brought in by the occupation. Chieko’s hopes and dreams of life in the States with a handsome hero are penned on a photograph of herself that she gives to her American lover as he heads back to the States. It is a simple note that reads, “I promise my eternal love.” Of all the lovely traits mothers and daughters can have in common, one of theirs isn’t so lovely: They both don’t keep promises.
Book Synopsis Those Days in Muramatsu by : Yumi Goto
Download or read book Those Days in Muramatsu written by Yumi Goto and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bearing witness to the encounters of American soldiers and Japanese civilians in the aftermath of a savage war, the memoir of Mrs Yumi Goto is poignant testimony to the capacity of ordinary people for mutual curiosity, learning and generosity. In the summer of 1945, a contingent of 1,800 American soldiers was posted as a garrison force in the country town of Muramatsu, where they lived alongside a community feeling 'depressed and fearful' at the prospect of foreign occupation. Mrs Goto, an English-speaking graduate of one of Japan's top universities for women, had relocated to Muramatsu with her family after their house in Tokyo was destroyed in a bombing raid. She became an interpreter while the Americans were in Muramatsu, and recorded light-hearted but perceptive observations of the Japanese-American encounter. Written in English for an American audience who 'would like to read how their young men behaved in Japan', and revealing 'the thoughts and sentiments of a 26-year old girl in war-devastated Japan', her memoir is a charming and uplifting account of a woman's journey, and how ordinary people from very different backgrounds found common ground in difficult circumstances.
Download or read book Kami and Kaze written by Wena Poon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unfolds in sharply-written, understated scenes." -The Japan Times From 1945-1952, Japan was occupied by America. It was America's most significant experience of being a colonial government. For the Japanese, it was a period of suspicion and humiliation. For the Americans, it was a chance to experience a people they had only known across the battlefield. Despite the brevity of the contact, some Americans left with a lifelong love for the country. This is their story.
Download or read book Embracing Defeat written by John W Dower and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-07-04 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. It examines the economic resurgence as well as how the nation as a whole reacted to defeat and the end of a suicidal nationalism.
Book Synopsis Interpreting Occupied Japan by : Basil Archer
Download or read book Interpreting Occupied Japan written by Basil Archer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a rare account of early post-war Japan from the cutting edge of day-to-day work in the Allied occupation, by an Australian soldier trained in the Japanese language for occupation work. It provides a wealth of insights into the lives both of the soldiers in the British Commonwealth Occupation Force and of the Japanese with whom they lived and worked. Basil Archer writes vividly about his journey to Japan via Morotai in Indonesia, his intelligence work as an interpreter in a country area, the places he visited and th people he encountered - Japanese, English, Scottish, Indian, American and Australian. Basil Archer served in Japan during 1946 as a language officer in the British Commonwealth Occupation Force. After discharge from the Army he worked for the Western Australian State Electricity Commission, then for the Government Chemical Laboratories and finally as Laboratory Manager of the Chemistry Department of Curtin University of Technology. He is now retired and lives in Perth, where his is Secretry of the BCOF Association of Western Australia.
Book Synopsis The Economic and Business History of Occupied Japan by : Thomas French
Download or read book The Economic and Business History of Occupied Japan written by Thomas French and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Occupation era (1945-1952) witnessed major change in Japan and the beginnings of its growth from of the ashes of defeat towards its status as a developmental model for much of the world. The period arguably saw the sowing of the seeds of the post-war flowering of what some term the ‘postwar Japanese economic miracle’. However, some scholars dispute this position and argue that the Occupation's policies and impacts actually hindered Japan's recovery. This volume addresses this question and others surrounding the business and economic history of this crucial period. The chapters presented in The Economic and Business History of Occupied Japan are authored by major scholars of the Occupation from the U.S., Japan, and Europe. The chapters are divided into three sections: 'Planning, reform and recovery', 'Industries under the Occupation', and 'Legacies of the Occupation era'. Following an introduction focusing on the historiographical background, the first section examines zaibatsu dissolution and its significance, the role of Japanese businessmen within the Occupation's reforms, the crucial impact of Japan's postwar Materials Crisis, and the impact of reform at the local level in Hokkaidō. Part two looks at a number of individual industries and their development during the era, including the fishing, automotive, and cotton spinning industries. The final section looks at the human impact of the changes of the initial postwar years, including the reintegration of repatriates into the Japanese labour force and the impact of changing working patterns on society and family life. This book covers a key period of the economic and business history of Japan and presents numerous new approaches and original contributions to the scholarship of the Occupation era. It will be of interest to scholars of modern Japan, economic history, business history, development studies and postwar U.S.-Japan relations.
Book Synopsis Reforming Public Health in Occupied Japan, 1945-52 by : Christopher Aldous
Download or read book Reforming Public Health in Occupied Japan, 1945-52 written by Christopher Aldous and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst most facets of the Occupation of Japan have attracted much scholarly debate in recent decades, this is not the case with reforms relating to public health. The few studies of this subject largely follow the celebratory account of US-inspired advances, strongly associated with Crawford Sams, the key figure in the Occupation charged with carrying them out. This book tests the validity of this dominant narrative, interrogating its chief claims, exploring the influences acting on it, and critically examining the reform’s broader significance for the Occupation and its legacies for both Japan and the US. The book argues that rather than presiding over a revolution in public health, the Public Health and Welfare Section, headed by Sams, recommended methods of epidemic disease control and prevention that were already established in Japan and were not the innovations that they were often claimed to be. Where high incidence of such endemic diseases as dysentery and tuberculosis reflected serious socio-economic problems or deficiencies in sanitary infrastructure, little was done in practice to tackle the fundamental problems of poor water quality, the continued use of night soil as fertilizer and pervasive malnutrition. Improvements in these areas followed the trajectory of recovery, growth and rising prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s. This book will be important reading for anyone studying Japanese History, the History of Medicine, Public Health in Asia and Asian Social Policy.
Book Synopsis Memories of Occupied Japan by : Philip Maxwell Green
Download or read book Memories of Occupied Japan written by Philip Maxwell Green and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Voyage written by Ellen Gibson-Adler and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As World War II ravages Europe and begins to sweep across the Pacific, a young woman finds freedom and responsibility by immersing herself in the war effort. Maggie Fitzgerald's big break comes at the Western Union office in Washington, DC. With able-bodied men in short supply, she is entrusted with important tasks previously considered "man's work." Living in a boardinghouse for women and volunteering at the USO, she revels in opportunities that were unavailable in her small Massachusetts hometown. At the same time, a young man from Louisiana joins the army. Second Lieutenant Terry Lyons was raised in a strict, fundamentalist home with an absent father and an emotionally unstable mother. He, like Maggie, sees his new career as a ticket to freedom. When the two meet by chance on a train headed for Washington, DC, sparks fly, and they begin to imagine a future together. Then Terry is shipped to the Pacific with the Army Corps of Engineers, and their worries are fueled by agonizingly long waits between letters. Even after the battles cease, they face challenges in occupied Japan that test their faith and love. Ellen Gibson-Adler's moving portrait of life on the home front captures the importance of living in the present.
Book Synopsis Children of the Occupation by : Walter Hamilton
Download or read book Children of the Occupation written by Walter Hamilton and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a beautifully written, deeply moving and well-researched account of the lives of mixed-race children of occupied Japan. The author artfully blends oral histories with an historical and political analysis of international race relations and immigration policy in North America and Australia, to highlight the little-known story of the thousands of children that resulted from the unions of Japanese women and Allied servicemen posted to Japan following WWII. It is a powerful narrative of loss, longing and reconnection, written by the ABC’s long-time Tokyo correspondent, Walter Hamilton.
Book Synopsis Collectibles of Occupied Japan by : Judie Ludwig Sieloff
Download or read book Collectibles of Occupied Japan written by Judie Ludwig Sieloff and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Terasaki Hidenari, Pearl Harbor, and Occupied Japan by : Roger B. Jeans
Download or read book Terasaki Hidenari, Pearl Harbor, and Occupied Japan written by Roger B. Jeans and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this study, an attempt has been made to replace myth with a realistic and balanced portrait of the political intelligence and propaganda agent who strove to avert a Japanese-American war before Pearl Harbor and the imperial aide who tried to save his emperor following the war. Instead of solely relying on MAGIC materials or the ... memoir by Terasaki's widow, fresh archival and FBI materials have made it possible to portray 'a man in full'"--Introduction.
Book Synopsis Sojourn in Occupied Japan by : Graham Belcher Blackstock
Download or read book Sojourn in Occupied Japan written by Graham Belcher Blackstock and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Allied Occupation and Japan's Economic Miracle by : Bowen C. Dees
Download or read book The Allied Occupation and Japan's Economic Miracle written by Bowen C. Dees and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is virtually nothing - until the arrival of this study - addressing the significance of the enormous contributions in science and technology towards the realization of Japan's 'economic miracle' during the occupation period. Describes the Scientific and Technical Division of McArthur's GHQ.
