Brokering a race war Japanese Americans in the Pacific War and the occupation of Japan Eiichiro Azuma

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Azuma, Eiichiro, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Japanese American.

World War, 1939-1945.

Japanese American soldiers--Japan--History--20th century.

Japanese American soldiers.

Japanese Americans--Social conditions.

Japanese Americans.

Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952.

Japan.

United States--Foreign relations--Japan.

United States.

Japan--Foreign relations--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

illustration

map

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Japanese Americans in the Pacific War and the occupation of Japan

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press, 2026.

New York, NY Oxford University Press [2026]

Summary:

During the years of the Pacific War and occupied Japan, more than 10,000 second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) served in the US armed forces and their campaigns in combat theatres and occupied enemy land in the Asia-Pacific region. By birthright US citizenship and acculturation, these young men and women of Japanese ancestry considered themselves to be American, but by blood ties and heritage culture they tended to be identified with their ancestral land of Japan. American-born residents of Japan were similarly recruited into the role of experts on the enemy according to presumptions about the special cultural capital they possessed due to their American upbringing. This book traces the complex experiences of Nisei soldiers and civilian linguists framed in a trans-imperial context. It examines the interactions between the United States and Japan as well as Japanese Americans' complicated relationships to white Americans and Japanese nationals

Contents:

Cover

Brokering a Race War : Japanese Americans in the Pacific War and the Occupation of Japan

Copyright

Preface and Acknowledgments

Contents

Glossary of Terms for the Subgroups of Japanese Americans

Note on Translation and Japanese and Japanese American Names

Maps

Introduction

Toward a Transimperial History of Japanese American Military Service

Navigating the Shifting Terrains of Race, Culture, and Citizenship in the Militarized Pacific

Military Service as Migration and the Problems of Anti-racism and Martial Citizenship

Practicing Minority Imperial Citizenship in Occupied Japan

Nisei Cultural Brokers in the Propaganda War and Military Occupation

Part I: Propadanga War and the Transpacific Genealogies of Nisei Cultural Brokers

1: Nisei as Model Imperial Subjects and Japan's Race War Propaganda

Japan Takes the Initiative: White American Racism and Japanese American Incarceration

Nisei Association of Nippon and the Mobilization of US-Born Japanese in Wartime Japan

Nisei as Japanese Propagandists and Brokers of Racial Knowledge in the War-Torn Pacific

American-Born Nisei as Japan's War Heroes

2: America Speaks Back through Nisei Soldiers

Japanese American Incarceration and the Making of Wartime US Anti-racism

Nisei's Complicity with New Americanism and Colorblind US Militarism

Nisei in US Military Intelligence Service and Its Leaflet Propaganda

" Free Japanese Movement" and Japanese Americans as Teachers of Democracy

PART II: MILITARY OCCUPATION AND THE DUPLICITY OF MINORITY CITIZENSHIP

3: Military Governance and Japanese Americans in Occupied Japan

Origins of Nisei Cultural Brokers in the Militarized Asia-Pacific

Rehabilitation of Marginalized Nisei asPatriotic Americans

The Precarious Positions and Duties of Nisei Occupation Troops

Non-citizen Nisei as Japan's "Native" Brokers

Japanese Americans as Knowledge Producersfor GHQ Democratization

Nisei as the Agent and the Symbol ofTutelary Democratization

4: Nisei Occupation Troops and Minority Imperial Citizenship

Capitalizing on Racial Commonalty with the Enemy

Abusing Racial Commonalty with the Enemy

Practice of Flexible Invisibility

Hyper-Disidentification and the Performance of Intra-Racial Difference

Japanese Americans as Democracy's Disciplinarians

Japanese Reprisals and Nisei's Criminalization

Part III: Nisei Military Heroism And Japan's Rearmament

5: Mythologizing Japanese American Soldiers in Defeated Japan

Suppression, Importation, and Resurrection of the Nisei War Heroes in Occupied Japan

Nisei Military Heroism and the Problem of Rearmament in Occupied Japan

6: Nisei and the Cultural Politics of Remilitarization

Lawrence H. Sakamoto and the Japanization of the Nisei War Heroes

A Transpacific Film War: Mother of Japanese Americans vs. Go For Broke!

Epilogue

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780197781432

0197781438

OCLC:

1583725044

Publisher Number:

CIPO000373975

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