Honored and Dishonored Guests: Westerners in Wartime Japan

by W Puck Brecher and W. Puck Brecher

Book Overview

The brutality and racial hatred exhibited by Japan's military during the Pacific War piqued outrage in the West and fanned resentments throughout Asia. Public understanding of Japan's wartime atrocities, however, often fails to differentiate the racial agendas of its military and government elites from the racial values held by the Japanese people. While not denying brutalities committed by the Japanese military, Honored and Dishonored Guests...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674975146
• ISBN13: 9780674975149
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 8.9"