The Gods Left First : The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945-1956 / Andrew E. Barshay.
At the time of Japan's surrender to Allied forces on August 15, 1945, some six million Japanese were left stranded across the vast expanse of a vanquished Asian empire. Half civilian and half military, they faced the prospect of returning somehow to a Japan that lay prostrate, its cities destro...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps and Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Names and Terms
- Prologue: The Gods Left First
- The Siberian Internment in History
- Kazuki Yasuo and the Profane World of the Gulag
- Knowledge Painfully Acquired: Takasugi Ichiro and the "Democratic Movement" in Siberia
- Ishihara Yoshiro: "My Best Self Did Not Return"
- Coda
- Appendix: How Many?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index