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- catalog abstract "Here for the first time is the full story of America's greatest error in the submarine war against Japan and the effect it has had on Japanese-American relations ever since. On the night of 1 April 1945, the USS Queenfish sank the Awa maru, sending more than two thousand men, women, and children to their deaths. The attack occurred despite the United States's guarantee of safe passage to the ship as a carrier of food and medicine to American and Allied prisoners of war. Washington promised to indemnify Tokyo for destroying the passenger-cargo vessel, yet not one penny was paid to the Japanese after the war, and Americans soon forgot about the tragedy. For the Japanese, however, it became a symbol of their victimization in and recovery from the Pacific war. Fluent in Japanese, Roger Dingman draws on extensive archival sources and interviews in Japan and America to tell why this error occurred, what the U.S. Navy and the two governments did to put the disaster behind them, and how radically different American and Japanese public memories of the Pacific war emerged from it. He shows how competition between American and Japanese would-be salvagers of the ship and the treasure it allegedly carried led to the perpetuation of contradictory and flawed understandings of the war.".
- catalog contributor b10540885.
- catalog coverage "Japan Foreign relations United States.".
- catalog coverage "United States Foreign relations Japan.".
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Fluent in Japanese, Roger Dingman draws on extensive archival sources and interviews in Japan and America to tell why this error occurred, what the U.S. Navy and the two governments did to put the disaster behind them, and how radically different American and Japanese public memories of the Pacific war emerged from it. He shows how competition between American and Japanese would-be salvagers of the ship and the treasure it allegedly carried led to the perpetuation of contradictory and flawed understandings of the war.".
- catalog description "Here for the first time is the full story of America's greatest error in the submarine war against Japan and the effect it has had on Japanese-American relations ever since. On the night of 1 April 1945, the USS Queenfish sank the Awa maru, sending more than two thousand men, women, and children to their deaths. The attack occurred despite the United States's guarantee of safe passage to the ship as a carrier of food and medicine to American and Allied prisoners of war. Washington promised to indemnify Tokyo for destroying the passenger-cargo vessel, yet not one penny was paid to the Japanese after the war, and Americans soon forgot about the tragedy. For the Japanese, however, it became a symbol of their victimization in and recovery from the Pacific war.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 373 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Ghost of war.".
- catalog identifier "1557501599 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Ghost of war.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press,".
- catalog relation "Ghost of war.".
- catalog spatial "Japan Foreign relations United States.".
- catalog spatial "United States Foreign relations Japan.".
- catalog subject "940.54/5952 21".
- catalog subject "Awa Maru (Ship)".
- catalog subject "D777.5.A92 D56 1997".
- catalog subject "Shipwrecks.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations Submarine.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, American.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, Japanese.".
- catalog title "Ghost of war : the sinking of the Awa maru and Japanese-American relations, 1945-1995 / Roger Dingman.".
- catalog type "text".