The Dismantling of Japan's Empire in East Asia : Deimperialization, Postwar Legitimation and Imperial Afterlife (Paperback)

Introduction: Angles of Empire

1. The Decline of the Japanese Empire and the Transformation of the Regional Order in East Asia Kat? Kiyofumi

2. "De-imperialization" in Early Postwar Japan: Adjusting and Transforming Institutions of Empire Kawashima Shin

3. Imperial Loss and Japan’s Search for Postwar Legitimacy Barak Kushner

4. Collapse of the Japanese Empire and the Great Migrations: Repatriation, Assimilation, and Remaining Behind Araragi Shinz?

5. The Shifting Politics of Guilt: the Campaign for the Release of Japanese War Criminals Sandra Wilson

6. Allied POWs in Korea: Life and Death during the Pacific War Sarah Kovner

7. Carceral Geographies of Japan’s Vanishing Empire: War Criminals’ Prisons in Asia Franziska Seraphim

8. Prejudice, Punishment and Propaganda: Post-Imperial Japan and the Soviet Versions of History and Justice in East Asia, 1945-1956 Sherzod Muminov

9. Sublimating the Empire: How Japanese Experts of International Law Translated "Greater East Asia" into the Postwar Period Matthias Zachmann

10. The transformation of a Manchukuo imperial bureaucrat to postwar supporter of the Yoshida Doctrine: the case of Shiina Etsusabur? Kanda Yutaka

11. North Korean Nation Building and Japanese Imperialism: People’s Nation, "People’s Diplomacy" and the Japanese Technicians Park Jung Jin

12. Humanitarian Hero or Communist Stooge? The Ambivalent Japanese Reception of Li Dequan in 1954 Erik Esselstrom

13. The "Pacifist" Magazine Sekai: A Barometer of Postwar Thought Sat? Takumi

14. Post-imperial Broadcasting Networks in China and Manchuria Shirato Kenichir?

15. Parting the Bamboo Curtain: Japanese Cold War Film Exchange with China Michael Baskett

16. Germany as a role model? Coming to terms with Nazi War deeds, 1945-2015 Kerstin Von Lingen