scholarly journals REVIEW: Behind the bitter attacks and propaganda—a remarkable Cold War talent

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-196
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
War Correspondents

Review of Memoirs of a Rebel Journalist: The Autobiography of Wilfred Burchett, edited by George Burchett and Nick Shimmin.When Phillip Knightley was researching The First Casualty (1975), controversial fellow Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett was at the top of his list of war correspondents in the Pacific theatre whom he needed to interview. But he was at a loss over how to find him. Was Burchett then living in Paris, Sofia, Moscow or Beijing? Or where? Ironically, Knightley bumped into Burchett at a party in the London suburb of Battersea.

Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism. By Mari Yoshihara. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003; pp. 242. $55 cloth, $19.95 paper; Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945–1961. By Christina Klein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003; pp. 316. 55 cloth, $21.95 paper.

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-282
Author(s):  
Josephine Lee
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
White Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
American Orientalism ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of

Since Edward Said's influential formulation, scholars in a variety of disciplines have unpacked orientalism in its various incarnations. Within American studies, theories of orientalism have been used to understand more fully both the relationship of the United States to Asia during the “Pacific century” and the history of racial formation and racism with regard to Asian Americans. One of the prevailing tendencies has been to posit the Oriental as that which is marginalized and excluded, as either the exotic Other or the yellow peril. Both Mari Yoshihara's Embracing the East and Christina Klein's Cold War Orientalism do much to refocus this discussion, using contexts that demonstrate how Asia and Asian Americans were not just treated as, to use Alexander Saxton's phrase, “the indispensable enemy,” but rather held, both politically and culturally, within a much more paradoxical “embrace.”

scholarly journals Der Kalte Krieg und die Asienkrise

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (111) ◽  
pp. 283-290
Author(s):  
Chalmers Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Foreign Capital ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Financial Measures ◽  
Asian Region ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Asian Tigers ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
The Cold War

The Cold War relationships in Asia are an important reason for the present crisis. They caused serious overcapacities throughout the Asian region. Moreover, by devaluating their currency China and Japan had strongly improved their competitiveness against the »Asian Tigers«. When foreign capital was pulled out of these economies, it came to liquidity crunch. For overcoming the crisis not only financial measures but new relationships in the Pacific region are necessary.

The Tokyo Trials

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Sellars
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Far East ◽  
Military Leaders ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
International Military Tribunal ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Military Tribunal ◽  
The Military

Of the postwar trials convened in Tokyo to try Japanese leaders for crimes relating to the war in Asia and the Pacific, by far the longest and most far-reaching was the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (“Tokyo Tribunal”). There, the eleven Allied prosecuting powers charged twenty-eight Japanese defendants—former prime ministers, cabinet ministers, military leaders, diplomats, and ideologues—with being members of a militarist clique that had purposefully perpetrated a huge conspiracy, dating from 1 January 1928 to 2 September 1945, to secure “the military, naval, political and economic domination of East Asia, and of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.” This trial, much criticized at the time, and still much criticized today for its retroactive charges and procedural shortcomings, concluded with the handing down of Sentences in November 1948. Yet the Tribunal was not the only one convened in Tokyo dealing with crimes relating to the war. In the months before the proceedings opened, the Japanese ran their own trials, hoping to settle accounts on their own terms before the Allies took over. And in 1949, after the Tribunal had closed, the Americans convened two more trials in Tokyo, Tamura and Toyoda, also presided over by Allied judges. By this time, though, new Cold War priorities had taken hold, and the Allies’ appetite for prosecuting the Japanese had diminished: the Toyoda trial was the last of its kind to be convened in Japan.

The Sound of Life in Marcel Beyer’s Flughunde (The Karnau Tapes)

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 360-381
Author(s):  
Arina Rotaru
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
The Novel ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Mechanical Destruction ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Strong Resemblance ◽  
The Cold War

In Marcel Beyer’s celebrated Flughunde (1995), the discovery of an underground archive of sound in the aftermath of the Cold War—preserved despite strategies apparently calling for its mechanical destruction—reassigns agency and voice to instrumentalized victims of National Socialism. By highlighting the close connection between an alleged security custodian of the archive, the actual National Socialist sound cartographer Hermann Karnau, and Moreau, a character bearing a strong resemblance to the protagonist of H. G. Wells’s 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, Beyer’s novel draws attention to a utopian experiment with life that was carried out in the wake of the colonial enterprise in the Pacific and posits additional historical undertones manifested in Karnau’s National Socialist experiments with sound. Karnau’s attempt to master vocal timbre in particular foregrounds technologies that make it possible to manipulate voice and memory in the post-Fascist and post-Communist present. In spite of technological alteration, archived voices of colonial and National Socialist subjects manifest a vitalist aesthetic. With its concern for race, sound, and memory, the novel breaks new ground in telling the story of the National Socialist and colonial past in the aftermath of the Cold War.

The Australian Pursuit of Japanese War Criminals, 1943-1957

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Aszkielowicz
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Allied Occupation ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
War Criminals ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Second World ◽  
The U.S

After the Second World War, the Australian military prosecuted almost a thousand alleged Japanese war criminals. These prosecutions were not only an attempt to punish Japan for its wartime militarism, but also a move to exert influence over the future course of Japanese society, politics, and foreign policy, as well as to cement Australia’s position in the Pacific as a regional power. During the Allied occupation of Japan (1945-52), Australia energetically pursued Japanese war criminals, and took a tough stance on Japan in general. The U.S. authorities, who dominated the Occupation, initially took the same line. As the Cold War in Asia intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, however, the U.S. government ceased to consider Japan a threat to Pacific security, and instead began to cultivate Japan as a potential democratic ally against communism. By the end of the Occupation, U.S. officials were firmly committed to pursuing good relations with the Japanese government. Gradually, in the 1950s, the Australian government came to share the U.S. view of Japan. As Japan shifted in official thinking from being a former foe, to a potential economic and political partner, concerns about the guilt of individual Japanese soldiers made way for pragmatism and political gain. The war criminals became entangled with Australian moves to establish good relations with Japan, and to draw the U.S. into a close alliance. Variations to their sentences - through repatriation to Japan, and later through parole or other forms of early release - became diplomatic bargaining chips. By the end of 1957, all of the surviving war criminals prosecuted by Australia had been released.

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