The Gods Left First: The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945-1956 (Hardcover)

List of Maps and Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Names and Terms

I. Prologue
The Gods Left First
Sources and Method

II. The Siberian Internment in History
The Prince’s Tale
The Soviet-Japanese War
Hot War to Cold
The Soviet-Japanese Conflict: Prehistory into History
Toward Internment
The Internment Remembered

III. Kazuki Yasuo and the Profane World of the Gulag
Icons of the Profane
The Red Corpse
“My Vision Broadened Tenfold”
The “Siberia Style”
From Image to Text
The Responsibility of the Artist
“The Beauty only I Can Grasp”

IV. Knowledge Painfully Acquired: Takasugi Ichiro and the “Democratic Movement” in Siberia
Thank You, Iosif Vissarionovich!
A Humanist Interprets the Gulag
Siberia, School of Democracy
Ogawa Goro Becomes Takasugi Ichiro
In the Shadow of the Northern Lights
The Gate of Hell
Toward Epiphany
Toward Return
Knowledge Painfully Acquired

V. Ishihara Yoshiro: “My Best Self Did Not Return”
Prologue: Ishihara Yoshiro and Viktor Frankl
The Survivor’s Question
The Primitive Accumulation of Memory
The Life before the Death
Into the Gulag
At Lowest Ebb, Stirrings
Kano Buichi, Enigma
Was this Domoi?

VI. Coda
The People Stalin Didn’t Care About
“A War to Live”: Fujiwara Tei’s The Shooting Stars Are Alive
The Meaning and Message of Survival

Appendix: How Many?
Bibliography
Index

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