Defining Karst Defenses: Construction and Features

Mushynsky, Julie

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“…His aim was to compare Watom with Japanese defences on other islands and to frame the Japanese occupation as one wave of settlement in a long archaeological history. Mushynsky and colleagues studied caves and tunnels on Saipan, known collectively as karst defences (Mushynsky et al 2018;Mushynsky 2019). Emphasis was on construction and use of these features, which were occupied by the Japanese military as command posts, combat positions, storage depots, and shelters, but also by civilians and US troops.…”

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A History of Japanese Diaspora Archaeology

Ross

2020

Int J Histor Archaeol

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Japanese diaspora archaeology originated in the late 1960s but reports and publications did not appear until the 1980s. Early studies often included Japanese artifacts or sites within larger surveys, but by the 1990s and 2000s were the focus of targeted research. Most research has been undertaken in western North American and the Pacific Islands. PreWar farms and work camps and World War II battlefields and incarceration centers emerged as primary topics of study, with the incarceration centers dominating the literature today. Research themes are diverse but emphasize material consumption, concepts of place, and patterns of cultural persistence and change.

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A History of Japanese Diaspora Archaeology

Ross

2020

Int J Histor Archaeol

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“…There is an increasing body of research that considers the remains of World War II either from an archaeological or a cultural heritage management perspective. Most of the early work was carried out in Micronesia, surveying the remains of Japanese [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] and US installations and residual equipment [10][11][12], while addressing questions of conservation management [13][14][15] and heritage policy [16][17][18]. Since then, work has been carried out on Japanese installations and equipment in the Aleutians [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] and German installations in France [27,28].…”

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Using KOCOA Military Terrain Analysis for the Assessment of Twentieth Century Battlefield Landscapes

Spennemann

2020

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Military terrain analysis serves as a tool to examine a battle commander’s view of a battlefield and permits to hindcast some of the rationale for actions taken. This can be augmented by physical evidence of the remains of the battle that still exist in the cultural landscape. In the case of World War II-era battlefields, such terrain analysis has to take into account the influence of aerial warfare—the interrelationship between attacking aircraft and the siting of anti-aircraft guns. This paper examines these issues using the case example of the Japanese WWII-era base on Kiska in the Aleutian Islands (Alaska).

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The Legacy Surrounding Us

Mushynsky

2021

The Archaeology, History and Heritage of WWII Karst Defenses in the Pacific

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Defining Karst Defenses: Construction and Features

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

A History of Japanese Diaspora Archaeology

A History of Japanese Diaspora Archaeology

Using KOCOA Military Terrain Analysis for the Assessment of Twentieth Century Battlefield Landscapes

The Legacy Surrounding Us

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