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

By Sabine Frühstück

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780520939646
DOI
10.1525/9780520939646
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2084480 bytes)
Pages
275\284
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 13:36:25

Description

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.

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