Uneasy Warriors - Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-520-24795-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 275 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 397 g

Following World War II, Japan's postwar constitution forbade the country to wage war or create an army. However, with the emergence of the cold war in the 1950s, Japan was urged to establish the Self-Defense Forces as a way to bolster Western defenses against the tide of Asian communism. Although the SDF's role is supposedly limited to self-defense, Japan's armed forces are equipped with advanced weapons technology and the world's third-largest military budget. Sabine Frühstück draws on interviews, historical research, and analysis to describe the unusual case of a non-war-making military. As the first scholar permitted to participate in basic SDF training, she offers a firsthand look at an army trained for combat that nevertheless serves nontraditional military needs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fruhstuck, Sabine

Frühstück, Sabine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Asterisked Names and Abbreviations
Introduction

1. On Base
2. Postwar Postwarrior Heroism
3. Feminist Militarists
4. Military Manipulations of Popular Culture
5. Embattled Memories, Ersatz Histories

Epilogue
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sabine Frühstück is Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan (UC Press, 2003).