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OverviewThousands of wounded servicemen returned to Japan following the escalation of Japanese military aggression in China in July 1937. Tens of thousands would return home after Japan widened its war effort in 1939. In Casualties of History, Lee K. Pennington relates for the first time in English the experiences of Japanese wounded soldiers and disabled veterans of Japan's ""long"" Second World War (from 1937 to 1945). He maps the terrain of Japanese military medicine and social welfare practices and establishes the similarities and differences that existed between Japanese and Western physical, occupational, and spiritual rehabilitation programs for war-wounded servicemen, notably amputees. To exemplify the experience of these wounded soldiers, Pennington draws on the memoir of a Japanese soldier who describes in gripping detail his medical evacuation from a casualty clearing station on the front lines and his medical convalescence at a military hospital. Moving from the hospital to the home front, Pennington documents the prominent roles adopted by disabled veterans in mobilization campaigns designed to rally popular support for the war effort. Following Japan's defeat in August 1945, U.S. Occupation forces dismantled the social welfare services designed specifically for disabled military personnel, which brought profound consequences for veterans and their dependents. Using a wide array of written and visual historical sources, Pennington tells a tale that until now has been neglected by English-language scholarship on Japanese society. He gives us a uniquely Japanese version of the all-too-familiar story of soldiers who return home to find their lives (and bodies) remade by combat. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lee K. PenningtonPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9780801452574ISBN 10: 0801452570 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 06 May 2015 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Introduction 1. Fundamentals of Military Support in Prewar Japan 2. Medical Treatment across the Sea 3. Comprehensive Care behind the Guns 4. Protecting Disabled Veterans during Wartime 5. ""White-Robed Heroes"" in Wartime Mass Culture 6. Occupational Rehabilitation Notes Bibliography Index"ReviewsCasualties of History is a terrific book. Lee K. Pennington's wide-ranging social history of Japanese disabled veterans during World War II and its aftermath affords a fresh look at Japan in war and defeat. Pennington focuses his attention on those who were arguably the most immediate victims as well as benefactors of Japan's modern war machine-and lived to tell the tale, as far as people cared to listen. With a sensitive, sure hand, Pennington locates Japan's war-injured men at the center of a web of social, political, and cultural relations that informed and were informed by innovative responses to war, especially on the home front. -Franziska Seraphim, Boston College, author of War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005 Based on a deep immersion in Japanese-language sources and an impressive familiarity with Japanese culture, Lee K. Pennington's book about wounded soldiers and disabled veterans succeeds in bridging the analytical gap between the perspectives of disability studies and the new military history, and brings to life the sufferings of these neglected men and uses to which their sacrifices were put by the Japanese state. It evokes especially convincingly the problems that massive civilian casualties and military defeat caused in making sense of their service. -David A. Gerber, University at Buffalo (SUNY), editor of Disabled Veterans in History This book is rich in detail and sources, and places the wounded veteran in the greater context of Japanese culture and the militarization (and subsequent demilitarization) of Japanese society... Pennington's work is a valuable addition to the expanding historiography on those survivors of war aptly described as the debris of battle. -Steven Oreck, H-War (July 2015) After Japan surrendered to theAllies in 1945, a segment of thepopulation became effectivelydisenfranchised in the decades tocome. 'In an era of memories andmemoirs filled with the voices offailed kamikaze pilots, bereavedfamilies, and atomic-bombingsurvivors, there was little roomremaining for the tales of war-wounded, leftover servicemen,'writes Dr. Pennington, a U.S.Naval Academy professor. Hisbook provides just that room. -Lee K. Pennington, GW Magazine (Winter 2016) Casualties of History is a terrific book. Lee K. Pennington's wide-ranging social history of Japanese disabled veterans during World War II and its aftermath affords a fresh look at Japan in war and defeat. Pennington focuses his attention on those who were arguably the most immediate victims as well as benefactors of Japan's modern war machine-and lived to tell the tale, as far as people cared to listen. With a sensitive, sure hand, Pennington locates Japan's war-injured men at the center of a web of social, political, and cultural relations that informed and were informed by innovative responses to war, especially on the home front. -Franziska Seraphim, Boston College, author of War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005 Based on a deep immersion in Japanese-language sources and an impressive familiarity with Japanese culture, Lee K. Pennington's book about wounded soldiers and disabled veterans succeeds in bridging the analytical gap between the perspectives of disability studies and the new military history, and brings to life the sufferings of these neglected men and uses to which their sacrifices were put by the Japanese state. It evokes especially convincingly the problems that massive civilian casualties and military defeat caused in making sense of their service. -David A. Gerber, University at Buffalo (SUNY), editor of Disabled Veterans in History This book is rich in detail and sources, and places the wounded veteran in the greater context of Japanese culture and the militarization (and subsequent demilitarization) of Japanese society... Pennington's work is a valuable addition to the expanding historiography on those survivors of war aptly described as the debris of battle. -Steven Oreck, H-War (July 2015) After Japan surrendered to theAllies in 1945, a segment of thepopulation became effectivelydisenfranchised in the decades tocome. 'In an era of memories andmemoirs filled with the voices offailed kamikaze pilots, bereavedfamilies, and atomic-bombingsurvivors, there was little roomremaining for the tales of war-wounded, leftover servicemen,'writes Dr. Pennington, a U.S.Naval Academy professor. Hisbook provides just that room. -Lee K. Pennington, GW Magazine (Winter 2016) Lee Pennington is most effective in blending analyses of government documents with accounts of boots-on-the-ground soldiers and veterans. His book is now the best investigation of Japanese wartime medicine, physical trauma, and social mobilization in support of rehabilitation. It deserves a place on the must-read list of every student of Japan in and after the Second World War. -Aaron William Moore, Michigan War Studies Review (June 24, 2016) Casualties of History is a terrific book. Lee K. Pennington's wide-ranging social history of Japanese disabled veterans during World War II and its aftermath affords a fresh look at Japan in war and defeat. Pennington focuses his attention on those who were arguably the most immediate victims as well as benefactors of Japan's modern war machine-and lived to tell the tale, as far as people cared to listen. With a sensitive, sure hand, Pennington locates Japan's war-injured men at the center of a web of social, political, and cultural relations that informed and were informed by innovative responses to war, especially on the home front. -Franziska Seraphim, Boston College, author of War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005 Based on a deep immersion in Japanese-language sources and an impressive familiarity with Japanese culture, Lee K. Pennington's book about wounded soldiers and disabled veterans succeeds in bridging the analytical gap between the perspectives of disability studies and the new military history, and brings to life the sufferings of these neglected men and uses to which their sacrifices were put by the Japanese state. It evokes especially convincingly the problems that massive civilian casualties and military defeat caused in making sense of their service. -David A. Gerber, University at Buffalo (SUNY), editor of Disabled Veterans in History Author InformationLee K. Pennington is Associate Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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