"When the Japanese empire ended, it did not necessarily go away. Throughout East Asia, its legacy lingers on. This volume presents fresh and exciting new work, much of it published in English for the first time. It helps us understand how the demise of empire left its mark on the beginning of the Cold War in Asia, and continues to shape political relations in the region to this day."
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
"This ambitious volume brings together the latest in Japanese and Western scholarship on the turbulent years following the end of Japans empire in East Asia. It examines the uneven physical retreat of the Japanese empire, which disappeared abruptly in some places within days of the surrender and yet persisted much longer in other places. More than that, it grapples with mind-sets, with the changes that were forced by the surrender and those that stubbornly resisted pressure to change. It is a rewarding expedition into geographies of the mind in post-war East Asia."
Professor Robert Cribb, Australian National University.
"The Dismantling of Japans Empire in East Asia: Deimperialization, Postwar Legitimation and Imperial Afterlife is a quintessential work examining with great profundity, the complex historical dissolution of the Japanese Empire, and affording postwar Japan a forward-looking vision for its future national narrative." Blake I. Campbell, Independent Researcher
