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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Japanese military"”.
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The United States-Japan Security Alliance: Current Status and Future Prospects
… thesis analyzes the current state of the U.S.-Japanese security relationship. It begins with a brief historical overview of the American commitment to the security of Japan, centering on the Securtity Treaty of 1952 and the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security of 1960, that established the …
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The strong devour the weak : tracing the genocidal dynamics of violence in the Japanese Empire, 1937-1945
The Japanese Empire, like other empires, had a potential for extreme group-destructive violence. This potential was unleashed at times between 1937 and 1945 as the Japanese military, engaged in wars fought, ostensibly, for the liberation and reconstruction of an ‘Asia for the Asiatics’, embraced …
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Narratives of a Fallen Army: Japanese Veterans' Concepts of Defeat and War Crimes Responsibility in World War Two
The Japanese military experienced different types of defeat in World War Two (WWII) both during and after the war, including loss in battles and war crimes trials. This dissertation analyses Japanese veterans’ postwar narratives in relation to the concepts of defeat and addresses the issue of war …
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A Matter of Imperial Defence: Arthur Balfour and the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1894-1923
… Balfour’s policy towards Japan and the Anglo-Japanese alliance from 1894 to 1923. Although Balfour was involved in the Anglo-Japanese alliance from its signing to termination, no comprehensive analysis of his role in the alliance has been carried out. Utilising unpublished materials and …
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Arirang People: A Study of Koreans in Transnational Diasporas of the Russian Far East and Manchuria, 1895-1920
… scholarly and popular, has been given to the Japanese deployment of Koreans in their war efforts during the Pacific War from the 1930s to 1945. Much less attention, however, has been given to the subject of the pre-Colonial period prior to 1910. The main objectives of this dissertation are to: …
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Social change in the West Sumatran village : 1908-1945
… of monetary taxation in 1908 to the end of the Japanese occupation in 1945. The study begins with the reconstruction of the pre-Dutch village social structure, characterized as an entity with a high degree of autonomy and a relatively closed society based on subsistence economy and led by …
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Performing Embodied Histories: Colonialism, Gender, and Okinawa in Modern Japan
… of the first foreign spaces to be conquered by Japanese military forces and subordinated under a Japanese governorship. The first section of my work argues that imperial Japan colonized Okinawa especially through targeting women and gendered bodily practices within a complex system of '"nested …
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"""We are here because you were there"": Kinship and loss in 20th- and 21st-century Korean American Narratives"
… with the other Korean comfort women at the Japanese military camp during World War II. Chapter three analyzes the queer relationships that exist at the margins of the family narrative within Chang-rae Lee’s novel, A Gesture Life (1999), to argue that queerness is integral to the institutions …
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Firearms, technology and culture: resistance of Taiwanese indigenes to Chinese, European and Japanese encroachment in a global context circa 1860-1914
… firearms in resistance against the Western, Japanese and Chinese invasions in the period of 1860-1914. I argue that through the avenues of access to firearms and their absorption into indigenous cultures, the Taiwanese indigenes preserved some of their cultural and economic independence. The …
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Imitation Game: Military Institutions and Westernization in Indonesia and Japan
… and doctrine of foreign armed forces. I define military emulation as the changes to a pre-existing military organization resulting from an imitation of another military's structure or doctrine. The changes stem from the diffusion of military ideas from one polity to another. I call those ideas …