{"product_id":"bodies-of-memory-9780691049120","title":"Bodies of Memory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJapan 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements 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","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359101583703,"sku":"9780691049120","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691049120.jpg?v=1754123590","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bodies-of-memory-9780691049120","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}