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DESCRIPTION:Japanese History Lecture Series\n\n<em><strong>The Making of Ja
 panese American War Heroes and the Rearmament of Occupied Japan: An inters
 ection of U.S. Race Politics and International Relations</strong> </em>\n\
 nLecture by Eiichiro Azuma\, University of Pennsylvania\n Thursday March 9
 \, 2010\, 6:00 PM\n Smith Student Union\, Room 327/8\n <em>Free and Open t
 o the Public</em>\n\nHistorians have examined a critical nexus between a c
 ontrived story of Japanese American (Nisei) military heroism and the remak
 ing of postwar America as a colorblind republic in the context of Cold-War
  racial liberalism.&nbsp\; The political use of Nisei's wartime military e
 xploits nonetheless was not limited to U.S. domestic race relations. In oc
 cupied Japan\, &quot\;democratic&quot\; Nisei troops served as an importan
 t trope for new soldiers of free Japan--the kind of fighting men who stood
  in sharp contrast to &quot\;savage&quot\; imperial soldiers in the popula
 r imagination.&nbsp\; My paper traces the convoluted politico-cultural pro
 cess in occupied Japan that gave birth to\, and solidified\, such an image
  of Nisei soldiers--the process that provided a background for the formati
 on in July 1950 of the National Police Reserve\, the predecessor of the pr
 esent-day Self-Defense Forces of Japan.\n\n<a href="http://www.pdx.edu/cjs
 /japanese-history-lecture-series">www.pdx.edu/cjs</a>
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Eiichiro Azuma in Portland\, Oregon
URL:/en/events/2010/03/06/lecture-by-eiichiro-azuma-in-portland-oregon/
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