Honored and dishonored guests
Subtitle: Westerners in wartime Japan
By: W. Puck Brecher
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs -- 399; Harvard East Asian monographs -- 399.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674975149
Subjects: Race relations; Political aspects; Racism; World War, 1939-1945; History
Description: "Recovers and chronicles Western communities in wartime Japan and uses that body of experiences to reconsider allegations of Japanese racism and racial hatred. The book's accounts of stranded Westerners yield a unique interpretation of race relations and wartime life in Japan"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Caucasians and race in Imperial Japan: 1. Racism, race consciousness, and Imperial Japan: A normative racism; title: Aspects of race consciousness in Imperial Japan; title: Sources of cognitive dissonance; title: 2. Privilege and prejudice: being a westerner in Imperial Japan: Early foreign settlements; title: The Yokohama community; title: Ornaments in isolation: the Frank and Balk families; title: Class insularity at Western resorts; title: 3. Handling the other within: approaches to preemptive containment (1939-41): Direct and indirect forms of containment; title: Japan's "Jewish Problem" and the Kobe community; title: A repressed, mobilized Christianity; title: Part II. Lives in limbo: containment in the wake of Pearl Harbor: 4. First responses and containment protocols after Pearl Harbor (1941-43): A new taxonomy of foreigners; title: Temporary detentions of suspicious enemy nationals; title: Enemy diplomatic staff under house arrest; title: Racialized others: Jews and Asians; title: 5. Watched and unseen: non-enemy nationals after Pearl Harbor (1941-43): Fracture and emotional conflict; title: Withdrawal and invisibility; title: Japanese ambivalence and anti-foreign sentiment; title: 6. Fleeing for the hills: evacuee communities in Hakone and Karuizawa (1943-45): "Running smoothly" in Gora; title: Karuizawa: a "strange miniature Babel"; title: Part III. Lives behind walls: Japan's treatment of enemy civilians: 7. From humiliation to hunger: the internment of enemy nationals (1941-45): Camp administration; title: The initial wave (1941-42); title: Stringency and privation (1942-45); title: 8. Torture and testimony: the incarceration of suspected spies (1944-45): Interrogation; title: Trial and imprisonment; title: Death and liberation; title: 9. Race war?: on japanese pragmatism and racial ambivalence: The failure of propaganda; title: Continuity and change following the surrender.