Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army

by Sabine Frühstück

Following World War II, Japan's postwar constitution forbade the country to wage war or create an army. However, with the emergence of the cold war in the 1950s, Japan was urged to establish the Self-Defense Forces as a way to bolster Western defenses against the tide of Asian communism. Although the SDF's role is supposedly limited to self-defense, Japan's armed forces are equipped with advanced weapons technology and the world's third-largest military...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520247957
• ISBN13: 9780520247956
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.5"