LEADER 03754nam 2200757 450 001 9910461204003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-20196-8 010 $a9786613201966 010 $a0-8264-3978-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000107207 035 $a(EBL)743218 035 $a(OCoLC)741691557 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000523615 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12233657 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000523615 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10539899 035 $a(PQKB)10039976 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC743218 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL743218 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10866900 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL320196 035 $a(OCoLC)893335814 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000107207 100 $a19991115d2000 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aJapanese prisoners of war /$fedited by Philip Towle, Margaret Kosuge and Yoichi Kibata 210 1$aLondon ;$aRio Grande, Ohio :$cHambledon Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-85285-192-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Context 327 $a9 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; Index 330 $aDuring 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 th 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, Japanese 606 $aPrisoners of war$zEurope 606 $aPrisoners of war$zUnited States 606 $aPrisoners of war$zAustralia 606 $aPrisoners of war$zSoutheast Asia 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xConcentration camps$zSoutheast Asia 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xConscript labor$zSoutheast Asia 607 $aSoutheast Asia$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, Japanese. 615 0$aPrisoners of war 615 0$aPrisoners of war 615 0$aPrisoners of war 615 0$aPrisoners of war 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xConcentration camps 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xConscript labor 676 $a940.54/72 702 $aTowle$b Philip$f1945- 702 $aKosuge$b Margaret 702 $aKibata$b Yo?ichi$f1946- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461204003321 996 $aJapanese prisoners of war$92150074 997 $aUNINA