Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea: War, Travel and the Reimagining of History
Ryota Nishino, "Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea: War, Travel and the Reimagining of History "
English | ISBN: 1350139009 | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 24 MB
English | ISBN: 1350139009 | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 24 MB
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,
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