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019 _a(OCoLC)979743868
020 _a9780801455629
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024 7 _a10.7591/9780801455629
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780801455629
035 _a(DE-B1597)478349
035 _a(OCoLC)905903190
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
_cDE-B1597
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050 4 _aD810.V42
_bJ37 2016
072 7 _aHIS021000
_2bisacsh
082 0 4 _a940.547552
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aPennington, Lee K.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aCasualties of History :
_bWounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War /
_cLee K. Pennington.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c©2015
300 _a1 online resource (304 p.) :
_b10 color photographs, 39 halftones, 6 tables
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
_bPDF
_2rda
490 0 _aStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNotes for the Reader --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Fundamentals of Military Support in Prewar Japan --
_t2. Medical Treatment across the Sea --
_t3. Comprehensive Care behind the Guns --
_t4. Protecting Disabled Veterans during Wartime --
_t5. “White-Robed Heroes” in Wartime Mass Culture --
_t6. Occupational Rehabilitation --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
_2star
520 _aThousands of wounded servicemen returned to Japan following the escalation of Japanese military aggression in China in July 1937. Tens of thousands would return home after Japan widened its war effort in 1939. In Casualties of History, Lee K. Pennington relates for the first time in English the experiences of Japanese wounded soldiers and disabled veterans of Japan's "long" Second World War (from 1937 to 1945). He maps the terrain of Japanese military medicine and social welfare practices and establishes the similarities and differences that existed between Japanese and Western physical, occupational, and spiritual rehabilitation programs for war-wounded servicemen, notably amputees. To exemplify the experience of these wounded soldiers, Pennington draws on the memoir of a Japanese soldier who describes in gripping detail his medical evacuation from a casualty clearing station on the front lines and his medical convalescence at a military hospital. Moving from the hospital to the home front, Pennington documents the prominent roles adopted by disabled veterans in mobilization campaigns designed to rally popular support for the war effort. Following Japan’s defeat in August 1945, U.S. Occupation forces dismantled the social welfare services designed specifically for disabled military personnel, which brought profound consequences for veterans and their dependents. Using a wide array of written and visual historical sources, Pennington tells a tale that until now has been neglected by English-language scholarship on Japanese society. He gives us a uniquely Japanese version of the all-too-familiar story of soldiers who return home to find their lives (and bodies) remade by combat.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aDisabled veterans
_xHistory
_x20th century
_xJapan.
650 0 _aDisabled veterans
_zJapan
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aWar and society
_xHistory
_x20th century
_xJapan.
650 0 _aWar and society
_zJapan
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xCasualties
_xJapan.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xCasualties
_zJapan.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xMedical care
_xJapan.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xMedical care
_zJapan.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xVeterans
_xJapan.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xVeterans
_zJapan.
650 4 _aAsian Studies.
650 4 _aHistory.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Asia / Japan.
_2bisacsh
653 _aJapan in Wartime, World War II, Japanese military aggression in China, disabled veterans, military medicine, social welfare practices in Japan.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9780801455629
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801455629
856 4 2 _3Cover
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