The Dismantling of Japan's Empire in East Asia: Deimperialization, Postwar Legitimation and Imperial Afterlife

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List of contributors
Introduction: the unevenness of the end of empire
SECTION ONE The new postwar order: meaning and significance
	1 The decline of the Japanese empire and the transformation of the regional order in East Asia
	2 “Deimperialization” in early postwar Japan: adjusting and transforming the institutions of empire
	3 Imperial loss and Japan’s search for postwar legitimacy
	4 The collapse of the Japanese empire and the great migrations: repatriation, assimilation, and remaining behind
SECTION TWO War criminals, POWs, and the imperial breakdown
	5 The shifting politics of guilt: the campaign for the release of Japanese war criminals
	6 Allied POWs in Korea: life and death during the Pacific War
	7 Carceral geographies of Japan’s vanishing empire: war criminals’ prisons in Asia
	8 Prejudice, punishment, and propaganda: post-imperial Japan and the Soviet versions of history and justice in East Asia, 1945–1956
SECTION THREE Diplomacy, law, and the end of empire
	9 Sublimating the empire: how Japanese experts of international law translated Greater East Asia into the postwar period
	10 The transformation of a Manchukuo imperial bureaucrat to postwar supporter of the Yoshida Doctrine: the case of Shiina Etsusaburō
	11 North Korean nation building and Japanese imperialism: people’s nation, people’s diplomacy, and Japanese technicians
	12 Humanitarian hero or communist stooge? The ambivalent Japanese reception of Li Dequan in 1954
SECTION FOUR Media and the imperial aftermath
	13 The “pacifist” magazine Sekai: a barometer of postwar thought
	14 Post-imperial broadcasting networks in China and Manchuria
	15 Parting the Bamboo Curtain: Japanese Cold War film exchange with China
Comparative epilogue
	16 Germany as a role model? Coming to terms with Nazi war deeds, 1945–2015
Index