ABSTRACT
This book charts comprehensively the various discoveries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific of Japanese soldiers still fighting the Second World War many years after it had ended. It explores their return to Japan and their impact on the Japanese people, revealing changing attitudes to war veterans and war casualties' families, as well as the ambivalence of memories of the war.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction
chapter |19 pages
‘Living spirits of the war dead', 1954–1956
chapter |23 pages
‘But they are not gorillas', 1959–1960
chapter |24 pages
‘In the jungle, the war was still going on'
Kozuka Kinshichi, Onoda Hirō and the last of Lubang, 1972–1974
