TY - JOUR
AU - Oguma, Eiji
AB - Social Science Japan Journal, 2024, 27, 261–264 https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyae006 Advance access publication 16 July 2024 Book Review Book Review Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan by Sherzod Muminov Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022, 384 pp., $45.00 cloth (ISBN: 9780674986435) An immense amount of effort was invested in creating this book. But beyond that, the work itself en- capsulates the difficulty of publishing a Japanese studies monograph in the English-speaking world. The author, Sherzod Muminov, is a lecturer in Japanese history at the University of East Anglia. In 2016, when he was thirty-three years old, Muminov was selected as the first recipient of the Murayama Tsuneo Memorial Award for the Promotion of Research into the Siberian Internment, given to early career researchers. A native of Uzbekistan, he is fluent in Russian, English, and Japanese, and this book relies on sources in those three languages. Its epilogue notes that in Uzbekistan’s capital of Tashkent one finds the Alisher Novoiy Academic and Ballet Theater, which was built in 1947 by the labor of Japanese internees, and that former Prime Minister Abe Shinzō visited it in October 2015 (293). The story of Japanese Siberian internment 
TI - Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan
JO - Social Science Japan Journal
DO - 10.1093/ssjj/jyae006
DA - 2024-07-16
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/eleven-winters-of-discontent-the-siberian-internment-and-the-making-of-idvQemNEVG
SP - 261
EP - 264
VL - 27
IS - 2
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