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Following the end of World War II in Asia, the Allied powers repatriated over six million Japanese nationals and deported more than a million colonial subjects from Japan. Watt analyzes how the human remnants of empire served as sites of negotiation in the process of jettisoning the colonial project and in the creation of new national identities.

Table of Contents
* Maps, Figures, and Tables * Introduction: Repatriation, Decolonization, and the Transformations of Postwar Japan * New Maps of Asia * The Co-Production of the Repatriate, 1945-49 *"The Future of the Japanese Race" and "Argumentative Types": Women from Manchuria and men from Siberia *"In the End, It Was the Japanese Who Got Us": Repatriates in Literature, Songs, and Film * No Longer Hikiagesha: "Orphans and Women Left Behind in China" * Conclusion: Third Party Decolonization and Post-Imperial Japan * Works Cited * Index

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      Publisher: Harvard University Press
      Publication Date: 12/3/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780674055988, 978-0674055988
      ISBN10: 0674055985
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Following the end of World War II in Asia, the Allied powers repatriated over six million Japanese nationals and deported more than a million colonial subjects from Japan. Watt analyzes how the human remnants of empire served as sites of negotiation in the process of jettisoning the colonial project and in the creation of new national identities.

      Table of Contents
      * Maps, Figures, and Tables * Introduction: Repatriation, Decolonization, and the Transformations of Postwar Japan * New Maps of Asia * The Co-Production of the Repatriate, 1945-49 *"The Future of the Japanese Race" and "Argumentative Types": Women from Manchuria and men from Siberia *"In the End, It Was the Japanese Who Got Us": Repatriates in Literature, Songs, and Film * No Longer Hikiagesha: "Orphans and Women Left Behind in China" * Conclusion: Third Party Decolonization and Post-Imperial Japan * Works Cited * Index

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