Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan.

This article discusses the book "Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan" by Sherzod Muminov. The book examines the history of Japanese Siberian internment, where approximately 600,000 Japanese soldiers and civilian military personnel were interned by the Soviet Union after World War II. The author utilizes sources in Japanese, Russian, and English to provide a global history perspective on the topic. The book also explores the construction of a new national history in postwar Japan and the impact of the internment on Japanese sentiment towards the Soviet Union. While the book does not present new facts, it offers a theoretical framework that critiques postwar Japan's national history and analyzes the internees' position in the Cold War. The article highlights the challenges faced by Japanese studies in English-speaking countries and the difficulties of achieving academic recognition from both English-speaking and Japanese-speaking researchers. [Extracted from the article]