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Book SynopsisJapan and the United States became close political allies so quickly after the end of World War II, that it seemed as though the two countries had easily forgotten the war they had fought. This work offers a look at how Japanese postwar society struggled to understand its war loss and the resulting national trauma.
Trade Review"With this book, Yoshikuni Igarashi contributes significantly to our understanding of the emergence and solidification of memories of the war in post-war Japan... Absorbing and thought-provoking reading."--Beatrice Trefalt, Japanese Studies
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Introduction 3 I. The Bomb, Hirohito, and History: The Foundamental Narrative of Postwar Relations between Japan and United States 19 II. The Age of the Body 47 III. A Nation that Never Is: Cultural Discourse on Japanese Uniqeness 73 IV. Naming the Unnameable 104 V. From the Anti-Security Treaty Movement to the Tokoyo Olympics: Transforming the Body, the Metropolis, and Memory 131 VI. Re-Presenting Trauma in Late-1960s Japan 164 Conclusion 199 Notes 211 Bibliography 253 Index 275
