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Lotchin, Roger W. "A Research Report." Southern California Quarterly 97, no. 4 (2015): 399–417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ucpsocal.2015.97.4.399.

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Public opinion polls taken between 1939 and 1945 questioned Americans’ attitudes toward Japan and Germany and toward the people of Japan and Japanese Americans. The polls’ quantified responses provide previously overlooked data that should be taken into account by scholars of Japanese American and World War II history.
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ROBERTSON, MARTA. "Ballad for Incarcerated Americans: Second Generation Japanese American Musicking in World War II Camps." Journal of the Society for American Music 11, no. 3 (2017): 284–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1752196317000220.

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AbstractDuring World War II, the United States government imprisoned approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were American-born citizens, half of whom were children. Through ethnographic interviews I explore how fragile youthful memories, trauma, and the soundscape of the War Relocation Authority (WRA) Incarceration Camps shaped the artistic trajectories of three such former “enemy alien” youth: two pianists and a koto player. Counterintuitively, Japanese traditional arts flourished in the hostile environment of dislocation through the high number ofnisei(second generation) participants, who later contributed to increasing transculturalism in American music following resettlement out of camp. Synthesizing Japanese and Euro-American classical music, white American popular music, and African American jazz, manyniseiparadoxically asserted their dual cultural commitment to both traditional Japanese and home front patriotic American principles. A performance of Earl Robinson and John Latouche's patriotic cantata,Ballad for Americans(1939), by the high school choir at Manzanar Incarceration Camp demonstrates the hybridity of these Japanese American cultural practices. Marked by Popular Front ideals,Ballad for Americansallowedniseito construct identities through a complicated mixture of ethnic pride, chauvinistic white Americanism allied with Bing Crosby's recordings of theBallad, and affiliation with black racial struggle through Paul Robeson's iconicBalladperformances.
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Watt, Lori. "Embracing Defeat in Seoul: Rethinking Decolonization in Korea, 1945." Journal of Asian Studies 74, no. 1 (2014): 153–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911814001715.

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Revisiting the political and social history of Seoul, Korea, in 1945, this article assesses responses to Japanese defeat and the end of empire in the context of American military occupation. The arrival of the Americans forced Japanese and Koreans alike to rethink their positions in the world. Drawing on past colonial practices, Japanese residents used the immediate post-surrender moment to ponder their future prospects, recording those thoughts in a number of public and private sources. They negotiated the passage from a colonial to a post-imperial society, I argue, by embracing a consciousness of a defeated people while disregarding criticisms of colonial rule. This investigation seeks to interpret the immediate post-World War II moment in Seoul less as a founding moment of the Cold War and more as an important transition in the history of decolonization.
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Jenks, Hillary. "Bronzeville, Little Tokyo, and the Unstable Geography of Race in Post-World War II Los Angeles." Southern California Quarterly 93, no. 2 (2011): 201–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/41172572.

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The Japanese residents and proprietors of Los Angeles' Little Tokyo were forcibly evacuated in 1942. The district filled up with African Americans denied housing elsewhere. Its wartime name was Bronzeville. In 1945 when Japanese internees were allowed to return, the two communities, each with a history of race-based dislocations, made efforts to accommodate each other in a biracial "Little Bronze Tokyo." The efforts and frictions were reflected in the columns written by Nisei Hisaye Yamamoto in the pages of the Tribune, a black newspaper. A second evacuation in 1950 of part of the district for the construction of a new police headquarters injured the returning Japanese community but devastated what was left of Bronzeville. Bronzeville ceased to exist less from disputes between African and Japanese Americans than as a result of racist spatial practices by local government. In the immediate post-war period, however, both competitive and coalitional approaches to multiracialism made possible a biracial landscape. Both communities learned from the brief experience of "Little Bronze Tokyo."
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Roces, Mina. "Filipino Identity in Fiction, 1945–1972." Modern Asian Studies 28, no. 2 (1994): 279–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00012415.

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The Philippines in the immediate post-war years may be described as a nation in search of an identity. This preoccupation with what one journalist has dubbed ‘the question of identity’ spurred a sudden interest in the research and discussion of things Filipino: Filipino dance, theater, literature, language, music, art and cultural traditions. After four hundred and fifty years of colonial rule the Filipino intelligentsia began to wonder if indeed the western legacy of colonial rule was the annihilation of the very essence of Filipino culture. Under the aegis of American rule Filipinos were adamant about proving to their colonizers that they had been good pupils in western democratic ideals and were fit to govern themselves. From the 1920s to the early 1940s, the Filipino had become a sajonista (pro-American). The Japanese colonizers who replaced the Americans in the second world war were appalled not only at the pro-Americanism of the Filipino but at the magnitude of American influence absorbed by Filipino culture. In fact it was the Japanese who promoted the use of Tagalog and the ‘revival’ and appreciation of Filipino cultural traditions as part of the policy of ‘Asia for the Asians’. Once independence was achieved at last in 1946, the focus shifted. The nagging question was no longer ‘Are we western enough to govern ourselves?’ but its opposite—‘Have we become too westernized to the point of losing ourselves?’.
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Reynolds, Douglas R. "Chinese Area Studies in Prewar China: Japan's Tōa Dōbun Shoin in Shanghai, 1900–1945." Journal of Asian Studies 45, no. 5 (1986): 945–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2056604.

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The history of “area studies” as an academic discipline remains to be written. When it is, it will have to begin with a little known, historically important Japanese institution in China. That institution, Tōa Dōbun Shoin (East Asia Common Culture Academy or, after 1939, College) in Shanghai, 1900–1945, was established to train young Japanese for business and government service related to China. The author focuses upon the area studies dimensions of this pioneering institution's training and research program. After identifying five requisites of area studies training and research, he moves on to examine the origins, raison d'être, and meaning of Tōa Dōbun Shoin's program and to chart the phases of that program's development through each of the five requisites. In important ways, the center's curriculum, facilities, research, and publications equalled or surpassed the best American post–World War II language and area programs.
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Colborn, Emily. "Japanese Americans at Dachau: Intercultural Exchange in the US Tour of The Gate of Heaven." Theatre Research International 27, no. 2 (2002): 201–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883302000275.

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The Gate of Heaven, which toured the United States for two years marking the 50th anniversary of the Dachau concentration camp liberation and commemorating the heroism of Japanese-American soldiers in World War II, imagines the friendship between a Japanese-American veteran and the Holocaust survivor he saves at the gates of Dachau in 1945. While the playwright-performers set out simply to celebrate their family histories – Lane Nishikawa is a third-generation Japanese American and Victor Talmadge lost many relatives in the Holocaust – the commemorative politics they encountered at each stop on the tour transformed the meaning of their play. A reconstruction of the social framework the play encountered at four venues, including the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Old Globe Theatre in southern California, demonstrates the malleable nature of race relations in America and the instability of Holocaust representation.
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Shibayama, Futoshi. "U.S. Strategic Debates over the Defense of Japan: Lessons for the Twenty-first Century." Journal of American-East Asian Relations 9, no. 1-2 (2000): 29–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187656100793645930.

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AbstractWhat is the current meaning of Japan's military power and what contribution has that power made to America's strategic position in East Asia, even the world, over the past fifty-five years? Could there have been an alternative to Japanese rearmament? Answers to these and other related questions lie in the American debates on the nature of Japan's defense situation in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Regional and global strategic circumstances have obviously changed over the past half-century, just as have weapons systems themselves. Strategic controversies from 1945, however, endure as the fundamental framework for considering Japanese military power and its possible alternatives.
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GAYLE, CURTIS ANDERSON. "China in the Japanese Radical Gaze, 1945–1955." Modern Asian Studies 43, no. 5 (2009): 1255–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x08003867.

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AbstractJapanese images of China have much to tell us about the way Japan sees its own modernisation and its place in the international system. Contrary to popular belief, Japan did not turn unabashedly toward the USA after 1945. During the first decade after World War II, a number of important Japanese radical historians and thinkers decided that modernisation could be accomplished without the help of the West. Just when many in Japan were looking to America and Europe as exemplars of modernisation, others looked instead to revolutionary China and its past struggles against Japanese colonialism in the construction of a very different historical position from that ordinarily associated with the early post-war years. Certain Japanese historians, inspired by the push toward decolonisation in Asia, set about writing the history of the present in ways that aligned Japan with modern Chinese history. Even though China had just been liberated from Japanese colonial rule, Japanese Marxists saw their own position—under American imperialism—as historically and politically congruous with China's past war of resistance against Japan (1937–45). Through campaigns to develop a kind of cultural Marxism on the margins of Japanese society, they sought to bring about post-war Japanese ‘national liberation’ from American hegemony in ways that consciously simulated past Chinese resistance to Imperial Japan. Replacing Japan's own cultural Marxist traditions from the pre-war era with the more palpable and acceptable example of China, they also hoped a new form of Asian internationalism could remedy the problem of Japan's wartime past. The historical irony associated with this discursive twist deferred to future generations the problem of how the Left* would come to terms with the past.
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Inoguchi, Takashi. "The Sociology of a Not-So-Integrated Discipline: The Development of International Relations in Japan." Journal of East Asian Studies 2, no. 1 (2002): 111–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1598240800000692.

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Stimulated by Ole Waever's (1998) examination of American and European developments in International Relations, this article examines the growth of the discipline of international relations in Japan, focusing on the major currents of the social science tradition since 1868 and the intellectual agenda of international relations since 1945. Postwar scholarship has reflected the main themes and questions of Japanese history — the causes of war, the struggle for peace, Japan's place in the world and Asia, and Japan's role in the Cold War. To an extent, the organization and substance of IR teaching and scholarship in Japan can be explained by reference to certain sociological and historical variables. Discussions about methodology have not mirrored the “great debates” of the United States, but the younger scholars are moving closer to the American pattern. Recent exposure to and interaction with American scholarship has become increasingly visible, allowing Japanese scholars to make important contributions to debates in the US.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "World War, 1939-1945 – Japanese Americans"

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Wilbur, Theodore. "American Friends Service Committee efforts to aid Japanese American citizens during World War II." [Boise, Idaho] : Boise State University, 2009. http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/47/.

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Goudie, Teresa Makiko. "Intergenerational transmission of trauma and post-internment Japanese diasporic literature." Goudie, Teresa Makiko (2006) Intergenerational transmission of trauma and post-internment Japanese diasporic literature. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/45/.

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The thesis examines the literary archive of the Japanese diaspora in North America and uncovers evidence of an intergenerational transmission of trauma after the internment of all peoples of Japanese descent in America during World War Two. Their experience of migration, discrimination and displacement was exacerbated by the internment, the single most influential episode in their history which had a profound effect on subsequent generations. It is argued the trauma of their experiences can be located in their writing and, drawing on the works of Freud and trauma theoreticians Cathy Caruth and Ruth Leys in particular, the thesis constructs a theoretical framework which may be applied to post-internment Japanese diasporic writing to reveal the traces of trauma in all generations, traces that are linked to what Freud referred to as a posterior moment that triggered an earlier trauma which the subject may not have experienced personally but which may be lodged in her / her psyche. An examination of the literature of the Japanese diaspora shows that trauma is carried in the language itself and impacted upon the collective psyche of the entire community. The theoretical model is used to read the tanka poetry written by the immigrant generation, a range of texts by the first American-born generation (including an in-depth analysis of four texts spanning several decades) and the texts written by the third-generation, many of whom did not experience the internment themselves so their motivation and the influence of the internment differed greatly from earlier generations. The thesis concludes with an analysis of David Mura's identification of the link between identity, sexuality and the influence of the internment experience as transmitted by his parents. The future of the Japanese American community and their relationship with their past traumatic experience also makes its way into the conclusion.
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Kobayashi, Junko. ""Bitter sweet home" : celebration of biculturalism in Japanese language Japanese American literature, 1936-1952 /." Diss., University of Iowa, 2005. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/97.

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Newman, Esther S. "Sojourners, Spies and Citizens: The Interned Latin American Japanese Civilians during World War II." Connect to resource online, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1210777704.

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Churchill, Amanda Gann Rodman Barbara Ann. "Peonies for topaz." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12097.

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Churchill, Amanda Gann. "Peonies for Topaz." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12097/.

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A collection of three, interwoven short stories set in Japantown, San Francisco and the Topaz Internment Camp in central Utah during World War II. The pieces in this collection feature themes of cultural identity and the reconstruction of personal identity in times of change and crisis. Collection includes the stories "Moving Sale," "Evacuation," and "Resettlement."
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Schreindl, David Robert. "Sowing the seeds of war : the New York Times' coverage of Japanese-American tensions, a prelude to conflict in the Pacific, 1920-1941 /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd626.PDF.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Communications, 2004.<br>"December 2004." Title taken from PDF title screen (viewed October 22, 2007). Includes bibliographical references and appendices.
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Inouye, Karen M. "Changing history : competing notions of Japanese American experience, 1942--2006." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3318331.

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Santos, Bevin A. "A Narrative Analysis of Korematsu v. United States." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2238/.

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This thesis studies the Supreme Court decision, Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944) and its historical context, using a narrative perspective and reviewing aspects of narrative viewpoints with reference to legal studies in order to introduce the present study as a method of assessing narratives in legal settings. The study reviews the Supreme Court decision to reveal its arguments and focuses on the context of the case through the presentation of the public story, the institutional story, and the ethnic Japanese story, which are analyzed using Walter Fisher's narrative perspective. The study concludes that the narrative paradigm is useful for assessing stories in the law because it enables the critic to examine both the emotional and logical reasoning that determine the outcomes of the cases.
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Michaud, Kristen L. "Japanese American Internment Centers on United States Indian Reservations: A Geographic Approach to the Relocation Centers in Arizona, 1942-1945." Connect to this title, 2008. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/185/.

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Books on the topic "World War, 1939-1945 – Japanese Americans"

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McGowen, Tom. Go for broke: Japanese Americans in World War II. F. Watts, 1995.

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1944-, Myers Joan, ed. Whispered silences: Japanese Americans and World War II. University of Washington Press, 1996.

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Eric, Foner, ed. Prisoners without trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. Hill and Wang, 1993.

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Prisoners without trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. Hill and Wang, 2004.

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Wukovits, John F. Internment of Japanese Americans. Lucent Books/Gale Cengage Learning, 2012.

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Wukovits, John F. Internment of Japanese Americans. Lucent Books/Gale Cengage Learning, 2012.

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Japanese Americans and internment. Globe Fearon Educational Publisher, 1994.

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John, Davenport. The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Chelsea House Publishers, 2010.

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Race for empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II. University of California Press, 2011.

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Grodzins, Morton. Americans betrayed: Politics and the Japanese evacuation. University of Chicago Press, 1990.

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Lyons, Michael J., and David J. Ulbrich. "America’s Path to War and Japan’s Tide of Victories, 1939–1942." In World War II, 6th ed. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429054990-8.

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Kim, Dong-Choon. "How Anti-Communism Disrupted Decolonization: South Korea’s State-Building Under US Patronage." In The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54963-3_8.

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AbstractKorea had been a Japanese colony from 1910 to 1945. Instead of becoming independent and unified, it was divided in the aftermath of World War II. The chapter describes how the American Cold War strategy of anti-communism penetrated the internal politics of South Korea, and distorted, or even prevented, like in other countries the process of decolonization, keeping the colonial apparatus in place. The historical task of reshaping the post-colonial order in East Asia was overshadowed for the US by requirements of its new hegemony and the need to rebuild the region’s capitalist economies. The systematic elimination of former independence activists, including right-wing nationalists in South Korea, by extreme anti-communists who had worked for the Japanese foretold the dominance of anti-communism in politics. The ideology of anti-communism brought South Koreans permanent surveillance, political terror, and mass killing like during colonial subjugation.
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Peterson, William. "Performing Japan in the ‘World of Tomorrow’." In Asian Self-Representation at World’s Fairs. Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462985636_ch04.

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As Asia and Europe raced toward another catastrophic world war, the Japanese government engaged Nippon Kōbō, its de-facto state propaganda machine, to reinforce America’s love affair with all things Japanese at the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair. The temple-like national pavilion set amidst an extensive garden celebrated the strong diplomatic and trade relationship between the two countries, while highlighting the ‘softer’ and more feminine side of Japan through displays featuring attractive, kimono-clad women engaged in silk production, ikebana floral arranging, and the ubiquitous ‘tea ceremony.’ The reception given to the genderbending performing arts company, Takarazuka in May, 1939, suggests Americans were unwilling to change their perception of Japan as the land of cherry blossoms and willowy maidens.
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Symonds, Craig L. "8. The Two-Ocean Navy." In American Naval History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199394760.003.0008.

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Europe went back to war in 1939 and on July 19 1940, the U.S. Congress passed the Two-Ocean Navy Act, the largest naval appropriation in American history, which expanded the U.S. Navy by more than seventy per cent in preparation for the United States entry into the war. ‘The two-ocean navy: the U.S. Navy in World War II (1939–1945)’ outlines the key battles fought by the U.S. Navy: in the Pacific from 1941–43, in the Mediterranean from 1943–44, the Central Pacific drive from 1943–44, the D-Day landings in 1944, and the ferocious battles with the Japanese at Iwo Jima and Okinawa that ended the war.
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Marlow, Eugene. "The Japanese Invasion." In Jazz in China. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496817990.003.0007.

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During World War II, the Japanese constructed prisoner of war camps in fifteen countries, including China. These camps numbered approximately 240. The Japanese—whose attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 brought the United States into World War II— saw their global role as manifest destiny, particularly with respect to China. Militarist Japan's attempt to conquer China began by seizing Manchuria in 1931 and became a full-fledged invasion from 1937 [when they attacked Shanghai] to 1945. This chapters shows that American jazz musicians—all of whom were playing in Shanghai—were not immune to the Japanese invasion and occupation. Some landed in internment camps in China and the Philippines.
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Conner, Thomas H. "The American Battle Monuments Commission and World War II, 1939–1945." In War and Remembrance. University Press of Kentucky, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0006.

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This chapter discusses the measures taken in order to secure the safety of the American memorials and the employees who tended them during the Second World War. Concern over the spreading war and growing hardship culminated in the evacuation of all the American employees of the commission, along with their dependents, from France and Belgium in 1941. Surprisingly, the monuments only suffered minor damage during the war. This chapter also highlights the efforts of army captain Charles G. Holle and Colonel T. Bentley Mott, the last two Americans to lead the Paris office of the ABMC before the United States entered the war, to preserve the memorial sites. Mott actually returned to wartime France in 1942 to supervise such efforts directly, and ultimately spent months in German custody. When the Allied armies liberated the ABMC sites in 1944, General Eisenhower sent an extremely joyful cable to Pershing announcing the good condition of the cemeteries and monuments.
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Barnes, Dayna L. "Behind the Curtain." In Architects of Occupation. Cornell University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501703089.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Allied occupation of Japan. Between 1939 and 1945, American policymakers decided to reorient rather than punish postwar Japan. They hoped to transform the current enemy into a “responsible” international actor through a short American-led military occupation. The political, religious, and even linguistic makeup of an ancient and deeply patriotic nation would be changed; Imperial Japan's colonial possessions would be liberated or redistributed. American intervention was expected to remake Japan into a pacifist economic power supportive of a postwar American order. However, President Franklin Roosevelt, congressmen, popular media figures, and high-level officials all opposed the plan at different points.
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Mawdsley, Evan. "Naval Strategies in Collision." In The Sea and the Second World War. University Press of Kentucky, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9781949668049.003.0003.

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In the 1920s and 1930s, three important visions of future naval war in the Pacific were extant: the American ORANGE war plans, the Japanese "Attrition/Interception" concept, and the British "Singapore strategy." This chapter by Evan Mawdsleyexamines what relevance these expectations had to the situation after the outbreak of full-scale war in China (1937) and Europe (1939), and especially after the fall of France in May-June 1940. It discusses how the war planning of the USA, Japan, and Britain dovetailed, and how it developed in the light of geopolitical and technological changes in the two years preceding the attacks on Malaya and Hawaii; June-July 1941 marked a second significant turning point. Finally, the chapter considers the relationship between the two actions of the Imperial Navy planned for December 1941, the "Southern Operation" and the "Hawaiian Operation," and the connection between those two Japanese strikes and the American-British "ABC-1" strategy of March 1941.
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Kohnen, David. "The Cruise of U-188." In Decision in the Atlantic. University Press of Kentucky, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9781949668001.003.0011.

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This chapter by David Kohnen examines the Allied response to the initial German submarine operations in the Indian Ocean during the Second World War. Roughly forty German submarines sailed for East Asian waters after 1942; U-188 was among the few to navigate the Allied gauntlet in the Atlantic to reach the Indian Ocean. Only three German submarines, including U-188, returned to Europe from operations in the Indian Ocean before the Allied victory in May of 1945. The discussions between key British and American commanders regarding the presence of German submarines in the Indian Ocean provide unique insight into the operations and intelligence organizations of the Admiralty and Navy Department and are examined in detail. The chapter also looks at the Allied submarine tracking rooms, which assisted the Special Operations Executive and Office of Strategic Services in the capture of the skipper of U-188 – thereby securing information on the Imperial Japanese during a critical period in the closing months of the Second World War.
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Schmitz, David F. "Architect of Victory." In The Sailor. University Press of Kentucky, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813180441.003.0008.

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Throughout 1943, Allied forces moved forward on all fronts: taking control of the Mediterranean and toppling Mussolini from power in Italy, pushing the Germans back across the broad front in the Soviet Union, and continuing to gain enough ground in the Pacific that American planes were in the position to consistently strike at the Japanese home islands by late in the year. The year also marked the height of the Grand Alliance in terms of cooperation among the Big Three. Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill were finally able to meet in November-December 1943 in Teheran to plan for the final victory and discuss peace and the postwar world. Teheran was the most important meeting of the allied leaders during the war, and the vital decisions reached there carried the war forward through 1944 and to victory in 1945.
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