History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. VIII. New Guinea and the Marianas March 1944–August 1944

Abstract Exploring the construction and maintenance of Nationalist Chinese soldiers’ graves overseas, this article sheds light on post-World War II commemorative politics. After having fought for the Allies against Japanese aggression in the China-Burma-India Theater, the Chinese expeditionary troops sporadically received posthumous care from Chinese veterans and diaspora groups. In the Southeast Asia Theater, the Chinese soldiers imprisoned in the Japanese-run camps in Rabaul were denied burial in the Allied war cemetery and recognition as military heroes. Analyzing archival documents from China, Taiwan, Britain, Australia, and the United States, I demonstrate how the afterlife of Chinese servicemen under foreign sovereignties mattered in the making of the modern Chinese state and its international status.

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The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942-February 1943. Vol. V, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II

The Mississippi Valley Historical Review ◽

10.2307/1888802 ◽

1950 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 164

Author(s):

Winston B. Lewis ◽

Samuel Eliot Morison

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

World War ◽

History Of ◽

Naval Operations

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Japanese American Buddhism

10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.68 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Michihiro Ama ◽

Michael Masatsugu

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

The United States ◽

Japanese American ◽

World War ◽

Japanese Buddhism ◽

American Buddhism ◽

History Of ◽

Jodo Shinshu

Japanese Buddhism was introduced to the United States at the Parliament of World Religions in Chicago in 1893, but the development of Japanese American Buddhism, also known as Nikkei Buddhism, really began when Japanese migrants brought Buddhism with them to Hawaii and the continental United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It has been influenced by, and has reflected, America’s sociopolitical and religious climate and the US relationship to Japan, to which generations of Japanese Americans, such as Issei (literally, first generation, referring to Japanese immigrants), Nisei (second-generation American-born offspring of the Issei), and Sansei (third generation), responded differently. While adapting to American society, Japanese American Buddhists maintained their cultural practices and ethnoreligious identity. The history of Japanese American Buddhism discussed in this article spans from the late-19th Century to the 1970s and is divided into three major periods: the pre-World War II, World War II, and the postwar eras. Japanese American Buddhism is derived from the various Buddhist organizations in Japan. The Nishi Hongwanji denomination of Jōdo Shinshū, a form of Pure Land Buddhism known as Shin Buddhism in the West, is the oldest and largest form of ethnic Japanese Buddhism in the United States. In Hawaii, Nishi Hongwanji founded the Hompa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii (HHMH) in Honolulu in 1897. On the continental United States, it established the Buddhist Mission of North America (BMNA) in San Francisco in 1898, currently known as the Buddhist Churches of America (BCA). Other Japanese Buddhist organizations also developed in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century. They include the Jōdo-shū, another sect of Pure Land Buddhism; Higashi Hongwanji, another major denomination of Jōdoshin-shū; Sōtō-shū, a Zen Buddhist school; Shingon-shū, known as Kōyasan Buddhism; and Nichiren-shū. The characteristics of Japanese American Buddhism changed significantly during World War II, when approximately 120,000 persons of Japanese descent living in the West Coast states were incarcerated because of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. The postwar period witnessed a rapid transformation in the status and visibility of Japanese Buddhism in the United States. This transformation was driven by the promotion of ethnonational Buddhism by Nisei and by the growth of interest in Zen Buddhism among the general American public. The positive reception of Japanese Buddhism in the United States reflected and reinforced the transformed relationship between the United States and Japan from wartime enemies to Cold War partners. While they experienced greater receptivity and interest in Buddhism from nonethnics, they could no longer practice or espouse Jōdo Shinshū teachings or adapted practices without clarification. Debates concerning the authenticity of Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism and Japanese American Buddhist practices were interwoven within a longer history of American Orientalism. By the 1960s, Japanese American Buddhist communities were transformed by the addition of a small but vocal nonethnic membership and a new generation of Sansei Buddhists. Demands for English-speaking ministers resulted in the creation, in 1967, of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, the first graduate-level training program in the United States endorsed by Nishi Hongwanji. This article is an overview of Japanese American Buddhism with a focus on the development of the Nishi Hongwanji Shin Buddhist organizations in the United States. English scholarship on the development of other Japanese Buddhist organizations in the United States is still limited. Throughout the history of Japanese American Buddhism, Nikkei Buddhists negotiated with America’s political institutions and Christian churches, as well as with Euro-American Buddhists, over Buddhist and cultural practices to maintain and redefine their ethnoreligious tradition. Buddhist temples provided the space for them to gather and build a community of shared faith and cultural heritage, discuss their place and the role of Buddhism in American society, and express their concerns to America’s general public.

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The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943, (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume I.)

Military Affairs ◽

10.2307/1982801 ◽

1948 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 179

Author(s):

Theodore Ropp ◽

Samuel Eliot Morison ◽

Wesley Frank Craven ◽

James Lee Gate ◽

Air Historical Office ◽

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Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

World War ◽

History Of ◽

Naval Operations ◽

Battle Of The Atlantic

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The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931–April 1942. By Samuel Eliot Morison. [History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume III.] (Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1948. Pp. xxviii, 411. $6.00.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/54.2.386 ◽

1949 ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

World War ◽

The Pacific ◽

History Of ◽

Naval Operations

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