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Manchurian Legacy
Kazoko Kuramoto
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Description for Manchurian Legacy
Paperback. Num Pages: 201 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BG; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 230 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
Kazuko Kuramoto was born in Dairen, Manchuria, in 1927, at the peak of Japanese expansionism in Asia. Dairen and 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 Russo-Japanese 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 third-generation colonist, the seventeen-year-old Kuramoto readily joined the Red Cross ... Read more
Kazuko Kuramoto was born in Dairen, Manchuria, in 1927, at the peak of Japanese expansionism in Asia. Dairen and 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 Russo-Japanese 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 third-generation colonist, the seventeen-year-old Kuramoto readily joined the Red Cross ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Michigan State University Press United States
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
Number of Pages
189
Place of Publication
East Lansing, MI, United States
ISBN
9780870137259
SKU
V9780870137259
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About Kazoko Kuramoto
Kazuko Kuramoto lives in Ontario, Oregon, with her second husband, a Nisei. Kuramoto taught Japanese from 1979 until her retirement in 1992 when she returned to college and earned her degree from Eastern Oregon State University.
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