When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation and Reintegration in Postwar Japan

by Lori Watt, George H. Sabine, A. Christopher, et al.

Book Overview

Following the end of World War II in Asia, the Allied powers repatriated over six million Japanese nationals from colonies and battlefields throughout Asia and deported more than a million colonial subjects from Japan to their countries of origin. Depicted at the time as a postwar measure related to the demobilization of defeated Japanese soldiers, this population transfer was a central element in the human dismantling of the Japanese empire that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674055985
• ISBN13: 9780674055988
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"