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Writing Japan's War in New Guinea : The Diary of Tamura Yoshikazu / Victoria Eaves-Young.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Asian History ; 10Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]Copyright date: 2019Description: 1 online resource (346 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048540969
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.54/265 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Prologue -- Author’s Note -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. An Extraordinary Diary of an Ordinary Soldier -- 3. Priming the Country for War: Imperial Rescripts as Fortifiers of the Kokutai -- 4. Out of Landscape -- 5. The Landscape of Deprivation -- 6. Creating an Idealized World -- 7. Re-creating an Emotionally Accommodating Landscape -- 8. Death as Man’s True Calling -- 9. Challenges to a Resolve to Die -- 10. Reconciling Death -- Epilogue -- List of Images and Maps -- Glossary of Terms -- Abbreviations for sources held at the Australian War Memorial (Canberra, ACT) -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Tamura Yoshikazu is destined to die on the alien shores of the New Guinea warzone. Devoid of family contact, perplexed by the unfamiliarity of his environment, deprived of even meagre amenities and faced with the spectre of debilitating illness and starvation, this solitary soldier commenced a diary in the early part of 1943. Employed in the hard labour of building airstrips, he is ground down by tedium, disheartened by the now dysfunctional military hierarchy, consumed by grief at the meaningless deaths of comrades, and stripped of any chance of being involved in an aspect of war that he considers heroic and meaningful. Profoundly unsettled by all that appears to be at odds with the kokutai ideology, Tamura employs strategies through the vehicle of his diary to enable him to remain committed to the pathway of death on behalf of the Emperor.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Prologue -- Author’s Note -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. An Extraordinary Diary of an Ordinary Soldier -- 3. Priming the Country for War: Imperial Rescripts as Fortifiers of the Kokutai -- 4. Out of Landscape -- 5. The Landscape of Deprivation -- 6. Creating an Idealized World -- 7. Re-creating an Emotionally Accommodating Landscape -- 8. Death as Man’s True Calling -- 9. Challenges to a Resolve to Die -- 10. Reconciling Death -- Epilogue -- List of Images and Maps -- Glossary of Terms -- Abbreviations for sources held at the Australian War Memorial (Canberra, ACT) -- Bibliography -- Index

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Tamura Yoshikazu is destined to die on the alien shores of the New Guinea warzone. Devoid of family contact, perplexed by the unfamiliarity of his environment, deprived of even meagre amenities and faced with the spectre of debilitating illness and starvation, this solitary soldier commenced a diary in the early part of 1943. Employed in the hard labour of building airstrips, he is ground down by tedium, disheartened by the now dysfunctional military hierarchy, consumed by grief at the meaningless deaths of comrades, and stripped of any chance of being involved in an aspect of war that he considers heroic and meaningful. Profoundly unsettled by all that appears to be at odds with the kokutai ideology, Tamura employs strategies through the vehicle of his diary to enable him to remain committed to the pathway of death on behalf of the Emperor.

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In English.

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