During the second one international warfare the japanese have been stereotyped within the ecu and American mind's eye as fanatical, merciless and virtually inhuman. This view is unhistorical and simplistic. It fails to realize that the japanese have been performing at a time of ideal nationwide situation and it fails to take account in their personal old culture. The essays in eastern Prisoners of battle, by way of either Western and jap students, discover the query from a balanced perspective, it within the gentle of longer-term impacts, significantly the japanese try to determine themselves as an honorary white race. The booklet additionally addresses the opposite part of the query, the therapy of eastern prisoners in Allied captivity.
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