LEADER 05326nam 2201201Ia 450 001 9910807345603321 005 20240314024224.0 010 $a0-520-95657-5 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520956575 035 $a(CKB)2550000001108402 035 $a(EBL)1335333 035 $a(OCoLC)855504631 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000950154 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11494691 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000950154 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11003772 035 $a(PQKB)10542979 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000229725 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1335333 035 $a(DE-B1597)518746 035 $a(OCoLC)1110709520 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520956575 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1335333 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10742585 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL508752 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001108402 100 $a20130319d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe gods left first$b[electronic resource] $ethe captivity and repatriation of Japanese POWs in northeast Asia, 1945-56 /$fAndrew E. Barshay 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkley, California $cUniversity of California Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-27615-9 311 $a1-299-77501-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tMaps and Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tNote on Names and Terms --$tPrologue: The Gods Left First --$tThe Siberian Internment in History --$tKazuki Yasuo and the Profane World of the Gulag --$tKnowledge Painfully Acquired: Takasugi Ichiro and the "Democratic Movement" in Siberia --$tIshihara Yoshiro: "My Best Self Did Not Return" --$tCoda --$tAppendix: How Many? --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aAt 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. 606 $aJapanese$zRussia (Federation)$zSiberia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aInternment camps$zRussia (Federation)$zSiberia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aJapanese$zRussia (Federation)$zSiberia$vBiography 606 $aPrisoners of war$zRussia (Federation)$zSiberia$vBiography 606 $aJapanese$zEast Asia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRepatriation$zJapan$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aImperialism$xSocial aspects$zEast Asia$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aManchuria (China)$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aKorea$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aJapan$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y20th century 610 $a1945. 610 $aallied bombing campaigns. 610 $aallied forces. 610 $aanthropology. 610 $aasian empire. 610 $aasian history. 610 $acaptivity. 610 $achina. 610 $acontemporary records. 610 $aengaging. 610 $aforced labor. 610 $ahistorical. 610 $ahistory. 610 $aimperial japan. 610 $ajapanese history. 610 $ajapanese imperialism. 610 $akorea. 610 $alabor camps. 610 $amanchuria. 610 $amemoirs. 610 $amen at war. 610 $apage turner. 610 $apoetry. 610 $apolitical. 610 $apostwar japan. 610 $aprimary sources. 610 $ared army. 610 $areeducation camps. 610 $arepatriation. 610 $aretrospective. 610 $asiberia. 610 $awarfare. 610 $awarriors. 610 $aworld war 2. 610 $awwii. 615 0$aJapanese$xHistory 615 0$aInternment camps$xHistory 615 0$aJapanese 615 0$aPrisoners of war 615 0$aJapanese$xHistory 615 0$aRepatriation$xHistory 615 0$aImperialism$xSocial aspects$xHistory 676 $a940.53/1450952 700 $aBarshay$b Andrew E$01185006 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807345603321 996 $aThe gods left first$94043433 997 $aUNINA