Nation-Empire - Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies - Sayaka Chatani - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2018 -

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By the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies, in particular Taiwan and Korea, had expressed their loyalty to the empire by volunteering to join the army. Why and how did so many colonial youth become passionate supporters of Japanese imperial nationalism? And what happened to these youth after the war...