...Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Behind a Curtain of Silence: Japanese in Soviet Custody, 1945–1956 . By William F. Ninmo . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press , 1988 . xiv , 149 pp. $37.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 622 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES eloquently...

... the prisoners to foster revolution in Japan. The task of filling in the details of various problems raised by the author is left for other historians. For instance, Ninmo mentions the role of Nippon shinbun published in Khabarovsk and distributed to all camps for indoctrination purposes, although he himself...

... country. When the Pacific War ended, more than 2.7 million Japanese found themselves in the Soviet-occupied territories. William Ninmo describes the fate of these hapless Japanese, paying due attention to regional differences in Manchuria, Southern Sakhalin and the Kuriles, Dairen and Port Arthur...

... Hakuseki and the Premises of Tokugawa Rule [PETER NOSCO] NATSUME; RUBIN (trans The Miner [WILLIAM E. NAFF] NINMO, Behind a Curtain of Silence: Japanese in Soviet Custody, 1945-1956 [TSUYOSHI HASEGAWA] NISHIDA; DILWORTH (trans Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview [THOMAS T. TOMINAGA...