05326nam 2201201Ia 450 991080734560332120240314024224.00-520-95657-510.1525/9780520956575(CKB)2550000001108402(EBL)1335333(OCoLC)855504631(SSID)ssj0000950154(PQKBManifestationID)11494691(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000950154(PQKBWorkID)11003772(PQKB)10542979(StDuBDS)EDZ0000229725(MiAaPQ)EBC1335333(DE-B1597)518746(OCoLC)1110709520(DE-B1597)9780520956575(Au-PeEL)EBL1335333(CaPaEBR)ebr10742585(CaONFJC)MIL508752(EXLCZ)99255000000110840220130319d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe gods left first[electronic resource] the captivity and repatriation of Japanese POWs in northeast Asia, 1945-56 /Andrew E. Barshay1st ed.Berkley, California University of California Press20131 online resource (256 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-27615-9 1-299-77501-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexAt 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 destroyed, after years of warfare and Allied bombing campaigns. Among them were more than 600,000 soldiers of Japan's army in Manchuria, who had surrendered to the Red Army only to be transported to Soviet labor camps, mainly in Siberia. Held for between two and four years, and some far longer, amid forced labor and reeducation campaigns, they waited for return, never knowing when or if it would come. Drawing on a wide range of memoirs, art, poetry, and contemporary records, The Gods Left First reconstructs their experience of captivity, return, and encounter with a postwar Japan that now seemed as alien as it had once been familiar. In a broader sense, this study is a meditation on the meaning of survival for Japan's continental repatriates, showing that their memories of involvement in Japan's imperial project were both a burden and the basis for a new way of life.JapaneseRussia (Federation)SiberiaHistory20th centuryInternment campsRussia (Federation)SiberiaHistory20th centuryJapaneseRussia (Federation)SiberiaBiographyPrisoners of warRussia (Federation)SiberiaBiographyJapaneseEast AsiaHistory20th centuryRepatriationJapanHistory20th centuryImperialismSocial aspectsEast AsiaHistory20th centuryManchuria (China)Emigration and immigrationHistory20th centuryKoreaEmigration and immigrationHistory20th centuryJapanEmigration and immigrationHistory20th century1945.allied bombing campaigns.allied forces.anthropology.asian empire.asian history.captivity.china.contemporary records.engaging.forced labor.historical.history.imperial japan.japanese history.japanese imperialism.korea.labor camps.manchuria.memoirs.men at war.page turner.poetry.political.postwar japan.primary sources.red army.reeducation camps.repatriation.retrospective.siberia.warfare.warriors.world war 2.wwii.JapaneseHistoryInternment campsHistoryJapanesePrisoners of warJapaneseHistoryRepatriationHistoryImperialismSocial aspectsHistory940.53/1450952Barshay Andrew E1185006MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807345603321The gods left first4043433UNINA