Dear General MacArthur

Letters from the Japanese During the American Occupation

Автор: Rinjiro Sodei

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Rowman & Littlefield

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This unique book compiles some 120 remarkable letters from Japanese citizens to General Douglas MacA...

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Автор

Rinjiro Sodei

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2006

страници

336

EAN

9780742511163

ISBN

0742511162

Enbook ID

04904196

Издател

Rowman & Littlefield

Теглоt

522

Размери

150 x 229 x 21

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This unique book compiles some 120 remarkable letters from Japanese citizens to General Douglas MacArthur during the postwar occupation of Japan (1945-1952). Painstakingly culled from a vast collection, these letters evoke the unfiltered voices of people of all classes and occupations during the tremendous upheaval of the early postwar period, when the Japanese were coming to terms with the devastating losses of the war, adjusting to a new political system, and creating the framework for economic and social recovery. Written by people of all ages and walks of life, the letters raise issues ranging from Japanese war crimes to the future of the emperor system, from the behavior of American occupation troops to pleas for the United States to annex Japan. Some writers offered to serve as spies for the occupation forces; others appealed for help in solving individual problems, protested allegedly unfair treatment by the occupation, or made detailed recommendations for the reform of Japanese society. Sodei's running commentary places the letters in their historical context, and the substantive foreword by John W. Dower, who drew upon Sodei's research for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Embracing Defeat, further assesses the significance of the letters in understanding Japan's occupation experience.

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