03754nam 2200757 450 991046120400332120200520144314.01-283-20196-897866132019660-8264-3978-0(CKB)2670000000107207(EBL)743218(OCoLC)741691557(SSID)ssj0000523615(PQKBManifestationID)12233657(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000523615(PQKBWorkID)10539899(PQKB)10039976(MiAaPQ)EBC743218(Au-PeEL)EBL743218(CaPaEBR)ebr10866900(CaONFJC)MIL320196(OCoLC)893335814(EXLCZ)99267000000010720719991115d2000 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJapanese prisoners of war /edited by Philip Towle, Margaret Kosuge and Yoichi KibataLondon ;Rio Grande, Ohio :Hambledon Press,2000.1 online resource (216 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-85285-192-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Japanese Army and Prisoners of War; 2 The Changi POW Camp and the Burma-Thailand Railway; 3 Allied POWs and the Burma-Thailand Railway; 4 Understanding the Enemy: Military Intelligence, Political Warfare and Japanese Prisoners of War in Australia, 1942-45; 5 POWs and International Law; 6 Culture, Race and Power in Japan's Wartime Empire; 7 Japan's Racial Identity in the Second World War: The Cultural Context of Japanese Treatment of POWs; 8 Japanese Treatment of British Prisoners: The Historical Context9 Religion, the Red Cross and Japanese Treatment of POWs10 The Post-War Treatment of Japanese Overseas Nationals; 11 Towards Reconciliation: Japanese Reactions to Ernest Gordon; Bibliography; IndexDuring World War II the Japanese were stereotyped in the European imagination as fanatical, cruel, almost inhuman - an image reflected in most books and films about prisoner of war in the Far East. While the Japanese cetainly treated those they captured badly, behaving far worse to Chinese and native captives than to Europeans, the conventional view of the Japanese is unhistorical and simplistic. It fails to recognize that hte Japanese were acting at a time of supreme national crisis trial, at a particular period of their history, and that their attitudes were influenced by a combination of thWorld War, 1939-1945Prisoners and prisons, JapanesePrisoners of warEuropePrisoners of warUnited StatesPrisoners of warAustraliaPrisoners of warSoutheast AsiaWorld War, 1939-1945Concentration campsSoutheast AsiaWorld War, 1939-1945Conscript laborSoutheast AsiaSoutheast AsiaHistoryElectronic books.World War, 1939-1945Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.Prisoners of warPrisoners of warPrisoners of warPrisoners of warWorld War, 1939-1945Concentration campsWorld War, 1939-1945Conscript labor940.54/72Towle Philip1945-Kosuge MargaretKibata Yōichi1946-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461204003321Japanese prisoners of war2150074UNINA