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oapen-20.500.12657-532362022-03-04T02:57:41Z Chapter 18 Japanese society at war Seaton, Philip home front; Imperial Japan; military history; World War II bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBW Military history::HBWQ Second World War bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBG General & world history Chapter 18: This chapter presents how the war was experienced on the home front in Japan, and how that experience is remembered today. Taking an elongated periodization of the Second World War from the Manchurian Incident of 1931 to the end of the Tokyo Trials in 1948, it discusses the Japanese war experience in three main phases: early victories (to 1942); the tide turns (to 1945); and repatriations and reckonings (to 1948). The key ways in which the war affected the lives of civilians will be discussed, including war work, conscription, settler life, civilians in the battle zone (Okinawa, Karafuto), air raids, repatriation, and the struggle for survival post-defeat. By continuing the discussion up to the end of the Tokyo Trials, the chapter presents the mechanisms by which narratives of Japanese civilian victimhood became so prominent in Japanese memories of the conflict by discussing how Japanese war guilt was addressed at the Trials and beyond. Finally, the chapter discusses the contemporary representation of the civilian experience in Japanese war and peace museums. 2022-03-03T13:42:24Z 2022-03-03T13:42:24Z 2021 chapter 9781138317086 9781032113104 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53236 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780429455353_10.4324_9780429455353-18.pdf Taylor & Francis The Routledge History of the Second World War Routledge 10.4324/9780429455353-23 10.4324/9780429455353-23 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb d80af3d1-56a8-4692-b6d3-679a4ac06240 9781138317086 9781032113104 Routledge 17 open access
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Chapter 18: This chapter presents how the war was experienced on the home front in Japan, and how that experience is remembered today. Taking an elongated periodization of the Second World War from the Manchurian Incident of 1931 to the end of the Tokyo Trials in 1948, it discusses the Japanese war experience in three main phases: early victories (to 1942); the tide turns (to 1945); and repatriations and reckonings (to 1948). The key ways in which the war affected the lives of civilians will be discussed, including war work, conscription, settler life, civilians in the battle zone (Okinawa, Karafuto), air raids, repatriation, and the struggle for survival post-defeat. By continuing the discussion up to the end of the Tokyo Trials, the chapter presents the mechanisms by which narratives of Japanese civilian victimhood became so prominent in Japanese memories of the conflict by discussing how Japanese war guilt was addressed at the Trials and beyond. Finally, the chapter discusses the contemporary representation of the civilian experience in Japanese war and peace museums.
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