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Zusatztext Broad engagement with both Japanese- and English-language secondary scholarship is a strength of this book…Nishino teases out fresh insights through careful, close reading. Scholars of cultural studies, war, travel, and modern Japan will all find much to interest them in this book. The numerous translations of passages from source material will help make this work useful in the classroom. Informationen zum Autor Ryota Nishino is Designated Assistant Professor at the School of Law, Nagoya University, Japan. Previously he was Senior Lecturer in History at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. His research interests revolve around the circulation of history and historical memory in various media such as school textbooks and travelogues. Klappentext 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. Vorwort An examination of how wartime experiences and post-war leisure travel impacted the Japanese cultural imagination of Papua New Guinea. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresList of MapsList of TablesNote to the ReaderPrefaceAcknowledgementsGlossary1. Introduction2. To Hell and Back: The question of cannibalism in memoirs of the New Guinea campaign3. Questioning Discipline: Military doctors’ writings and the medical gaze4. Finding reasons for living and dying in a warzone: cinematic adaptations of Kato Daisuke’s Minami-no-shima ni yuki ga fu...
