Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940 1945 / Samuel Hideo Yamashita.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yamashita, Samuel Hideo, 1946- author.

Series:

Modern war studies.

Modern war studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Japan.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Japan.

Japan--Social life and customs--1912-1945.

Japan.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940-1945 is an intimate history of the lives of ordinary Japanese during World War II that introduces us to housewives in provincial cities struggling to feed their families while supporting the war effort, a conscript from northern Japan who endured the harshest and most abusive training imaginable to learn to fly, Tokyo teenagers mobilized to work in wartime factories, children evacuated from the big cities to a life in the countryside with little food, bullying, and no privacy, farmers pressured to grow more rice and wheat with less fertilizer and fewer hands, and a Kyoto octogenarian whose inability to contribute to the war effort leads him to contemplate suicide.

Contents:

Part I. The home front

We all are home-front soldiers now

"No luxuries until the war is won"

Part II. The evacuated children

Making "splendid little citizens"

Monitoring the evacuated children

The "food problem" of evacuated children in wartime Japan

Part III. The last resort

Learning how to die

Popular resistance to the wartime government and its policies

The "jeweled sound".

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780700621958

0700621954

OCLC:

933516750