Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Notes on the text......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
The shared past: mobilisation for war......Page 26
Creating stragglers: demobilisation, 1945  1950......Page 37
\'Five years on mice and potatoes\': exotic stragglers,  1950  1952......Page 62
\'Living spirits of the war dead\', 1954  1956......Page 82
\'But they are not gorillas\', 1959  1960......Page 101
The past in the present: Yokoi Shichi returns from  Guam, 1972......Page 124
\'In the jungle, the war was still going on\': Kozuka  Kinshichi, Onoda Hir and the last of Lubang,  1972  1974......Page 149
Nakamura Teruo: the last straggler and the issue of  imperialism......Page 173
Conclusion......Page 192
Appendix: number and provenance of repatriates to Japan, 1945  1995......Page 204
Notes......Page 207
Bibliography......Page 233
Index......Page 249