From Japanese Empire to American hegemony : Koreans and Okinawans in the resettlement of Northeast Asia / Matthew R. Augustine.

"When American occupiers broke up the Japanese empire in the wake of World War II, approximately 1.7 million people departed Japan for various parts of Northeast Asia. The mass exodus was spearheaded by Koreans, many of whom chartered small fishing vessels to ship them back quickly to their lib...

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Online Access: Full text (Open Access)
Main Author: Augustine, Matthew R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2023]
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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505 0 |a Liberation and Segregation in Occupied Japan -- Repatriation as a "Privilege" for Non-Japanese -- Resettlement without Reintegration -- Smuggling as Resistance to US Military Rule -- "Blockade Runners" and the Making of "Aliens." 
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