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Manchurian Legacy: Memoirs of a Japanese Colonist,Used
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Kazuko Kuramoto was born and raised in Dairen, Manchuria, in 1927, at the peak of Japanese expansionism in Asia. Dairen and the neighboring Port Arthur were important colonial outposts on the Liaotung Peninsula; the train lines established by Russia and taken over by the Japanese, ended there. When Kuramoto's grandfather arrived in Dairen as a member of the Japanese police force shortly after the end of the RussoJapanese War in 1905, the family's belief in Japanese supremacy and its 'divine' mission to 'save' Asia from Western imperialists was firmly in place. As a thirdgeneration colonist, the seventeenyearold Kuramoto readily joined the Red Cross Nurse Corps in 1944 to aid in the war effort and in her country's sacred cause. A year later, her family listened to the emperor's radio broadcast '. . . we shall have to endure the unendurable, to suffer the insufferable.' Japan surrendered unconditionally.Manchurian Legacy is the story of the family's life in Dairen, their survival as a forgotten people during the battle to reclaim Manchuria waged by Russia, Nationalist China, and Communist China, and their subsequent repatriation to a devastated Japan. Kuramoto describes a culture based on the unthinking oppression of the colonized by the colonizer. And, because Manchuria was, in essence, a Japanese frontier, her family lived a freer and more luxurious life than they would have in Japanone relatively unscathed by the war until after the surrender.As a commentator Kuramoto explores her culture both from the inside, subjectively, and from the outside, objectively. Her memoirs describe her coming of age in a colonial society, her family's experiences in wartorn Manchuria, and her 'homecoming' to Japanwhere she had never beenjust as Japan is engaged in its own cultural upheaval.
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