Uneasy warriors : gender, memory, and popular culture in the Japanese Army / Sabine Frühstück.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frühstück, Sabine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armed Forces.

Sociology, Military.

Japan--Armed Forces.

Japan.

Sociology, Military--Japan.

Popular culture--Japan.

Popular culture.

Japan--Armed Forces--Women.

Physical Description:

xiii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]

Summary:

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 budget. Sabine Frü hstü ck draws on interviews, historical research, and analysis to describe the unusual case of a non-war-making military. As the first scholar permitted to participate in basic SDF training, she offers a firsthand look at an army trained for combat that nevertheless serves nontraditional military needs.

Contents:

1 On Base

2 Postwar Postwarrior Heroism

3 Feminist Militarists

4 Military Manipulations of Popular Culture

5 Embattled Memories, Ersatz Histories.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-260) and index.

ISBN:

9780520247949

0520247949

9780520247956

0520247957

OCLC:

85690290