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Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea: War, Travel and the Reimagining of History

Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea: War, Travel and the Reimagining of History

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Series: War, Culture and Society

General Asian HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1350369268
ISBN13: 9781350369269
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Apr 18 2024
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea exposes the interactions between two ostensibly opposing worlds: war and travel. While soldiers deployed to Eastern New Guinea during the Second World War recalled first-hand their experience of war, post-war tourists visited battle-sites, met locals, and drew their own conclusions about the Pacific island from the Japanese media. This book, in bringing travel and war closer together through a comparative analysis of veterans' memoirs and the records of postwar travelers, explores how individuals consume, create, and recreate war histories. As a result, Ryota Nishino reveals the extent to which the memory of defeat - for both soldiers and civilians alike - influenced the Japanese perceptions of Papua New Guinea and shaped future relations between the countries.

Translating a diverse range of Japanese primary and archival sources, this book provides the first English-language analysis of the social and political impact of Japanese interpretations of the PNG campaign and its aftermath. As such, Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea: War, Travel and the Reimagining of History is an important text for anyone seeking a sophisticated understanding of war, nationalism, and memory culture in Japan and the Pacific Islands.

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