Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea

War, Travel and the Reimagining of History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Ryota Nishino, Japan) Nishino, Ryota (Nagoya University, Stephen McVeigh

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Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea exposes the interactions between two ostensibly opposing worlds: war and travel. While soldiers deployed to Eastern New Guinea during the Second World War recalled first-hand their experience of war, post-war tourists visited battle-sites, met locals, and drew their own conclusions about the Pacific island from the Japanese media. This book, in bringing travel and war closer together through a comparative analysis of veterans’ memoirs and the records of postwar travelers, explores how individuals consume, create, and recreate war histories. As a result, Ryota Nishino reveals the extent to which the memory of defeat - for both soldiers and civilians alike - influenced the Japanese perceptions of Papua New Guinea and shaped future relations between the countries. Translating a diverse range of Japanese primary and archival sources, this book provides the first English-language analysis of the social and political impact of Japanese interpretations of the PNG campaign and its aftermath. As such, Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea: War, Travel and the Reimagining of History is an important text for anyone seeking a sophisticated understanding of war, nationalism, and memory culture in Japan and the Pacific Islands.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-10-06
Mått156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt558 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWar, Culture and Society
Antal sidor264
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350139008

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List of FiguresList of MapsList of TablesNote to the ReaderPrefaceAcknowledgementsGlossary1. Introduction2. To Hell and Back: The question of cannibalism in memoirs of the New Guinea campaign3. Questioning Discipline: Military doctors’ writings and the medical gaze4. Finding reasons for living and dying in a warzone: cinematic adaptations of Kato Daisuke’s Minami-no-shima ni yuki ga furu5. Documentaries as co-performative partnership: Framing and presenting testimonies of painful memories6. From a Soldier to a Best Friend Forever? Manga artist Mizuki Shigeru and the villagers of New Britain Island 7. Vicarious Consumer Travel and the Performance of Emotional Awakening in Travelogues8. Conclusion: The Road Behind and Ahead Select BibliographyIndex

Nishino investigates memoirs and narratives of Japanese wartime experience in New Guinea. Nearly all 150,000 servicemen deployed there died of illness or starvation. Japanese culture, subsequent events, and the passage of time have shaped memory, and Nishino astutely follows a chain of alternative portrayals of the Japanese as heroes, victims, or perpetrators in war memoir, film, manga, and travelogue from the 1940s to the present. English readers will appreciate new insight into Asia-Pacific war memory from the Japanese perspective.