More Than A Momentary Nightmare: The Yokohama Incident and Wartime in Japan
This work anayzes events surrounding the Yokohama incident (1942–1945), which led to the arrest of dozens of journalists and researchers in Japan during the Pacific War period. Utilizing government documents, legal records, postwar memoirs, and information obtained during personal interviews, the discussion concentrates on changes in the treatment of the suspected dissidents in Japan from the 1930s to 1945, and the problems within the system of internal security and thought control during the Pacific War. Attention is also focused on the legal campaigns of some of the Japanese victims of the wartime state from 1945 to the present.

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More Than A Momentary Nightmare: The Yokohama Incident and Wartime in Japan
This work anayzes events surrounding the Yokohama incident (1942–1945), which led to the arrest of dozens of journalists and researchers in Japan during the Pacific War period. Utilizing government documents, legal records, postwar memoirs, and information obtained during personal interviews, the discussion concentrates on changes in the treatment of the suspected dissidents in Japan from the 1930s to 1945, and the problems within the system of internal security and thought control during the Pacific War. Attention is also focused on the legal campaigns of some of the Japanese victims of the wartime state from 1945 to the present.

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More Than A Momentary Nightmare: The Yokohama Incident and Wartime in Japan

More Than A Momentary Nightmare: The Yokohama Incident and Wartime in Japan

by Janice Matsumura
More Than A Momentary Nightmare: The Yokohama Incident and Wartime in Japan

More Than A Momentary Nightmare: The Yokohama Incident and Wartime in Japan

by Janice Matsumura

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This work anayzes events surrounding the Yokohama incident (1942–1945), which led to the arrest of dozens of journalists and researchers in Japan during the Pacific War period. Utilizing government documents, legal records, postwar memoirs, and information obtained during personal interviews, the discussion concentrates on changes in the treatment of the suspected dissidents in Japan from the 1930s to 1945, and the problems within the system of internal security and thought control during the Pacific War. Attention is also focused on the legal campaigns of some of the Japanese victims of the wartime state from 1945 to the present.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781885445926
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 03/31/2010
Series: Cornell East Asia Series , #92
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 182
Product dimensions: 5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.56(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Janice Matsumura is Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University. She is currently conducting research on the establishment and impact of the psychiatric profession in Japan.

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