Honored and dishonored guests : westerners in wartime Japan / W. Puck Brecher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brecher, W. Puck, author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 399.

Harvard East Asian monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism.

History.

Race relations.

Japan--Race relations--Political aspects.

Japan.

Japan--Race relations--History.

World War, 1939-1945--Japan.

World War, 1939-1945.

Racism--Japan--History.

Race relations--Political aspects.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.

Summary:

"Recovers and chronicles Western communities in wartime Japan and uses that body of experiences to reconsider allegations of Japanese racism and racial hatred. The book's accounts of stranded Westerners yield a unique interpretation of race relations and wartime life in Japan"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. Caucasians and race in Imperial Japan. 1. Racism, race consciousness, and Imperial Japan. A normative racism

Aspects of race consciousness in Imperial Japan

Sources of cognitive dissonance

2. Privilege and prejudice : being a westerner in Imperial Japan. Early foreign settlements

The Yokohama community

Ornaments in isolation : the Frank and Balk families

Class insularity at Western resorts

3. Handling the other within : approaches to preemptive containment (1939-41). Direct and indirect forms of containment

Japan's "Jewish problem" and the Kobe community

A repressed, mobilized Christianity

Part II. Lives in limbo : wartime containment in the wake of Pearl Harbor. 4. First responses and containment protocols after Pearl Harbor (1941-43). A new taxonomy of foreigners

Temporary detentions of suspicious enemy nationals

Enemy diplomatic staff under house arrest

Racialized others : Jews and Asians

5. Watched and unseen : nonenemy nationals after Pearl Harbor (1941-43). Fracture and emotional conflict

Withdrawal and invisibility

Japanese ambivalence and antiforeign sentiment

6. Fleeing for the hills : evacuee communities in Hakone and Karuizawa (1943-45). "Running smoothly" in Gora

Karuizawa : a "strange miniature Babel"

Part III. Lives behind walls : Japan's treatment of enemy civilians. 7. From humiliation to hunger : the internment of enemy nationals (1941-45). Camp administration

The initial roundup (1941-42)

Stringency and privation (1942-45)

8. Torture and testimony : the incarceration of suspected spies (1944-45). Interrogation

Trial and imprisonment

Death and liberation

9. Race war? : on Japanese pragmatism and racial ambivalence. The failure of propaganda

Continuity and change following the surrender

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-354) and index.

ISBN:

9780674975149

0674975146

OCLC:

953792529

Publisher Number:

40026882740