The Japanese and the War : : Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory /

The Japanese and the War : : Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory / / Michael Lucken.

Memories of World War II exert a powerful influence over Japan's culture and society. In The Japanese and the War, Michael Lucken details how World War II manifested in the literature, art, film, funerary practices, and education reform of the time. Concentrating on the years immediately before...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
VerfasserIn:
Lucken, Michael,
TeilnehmendeR:
Grimwade, Karen.
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 27 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Names
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Nation out to Conquer
  • 2 A Totalitarian Dynamic, 1940-1945
  • 3 The Meaning of the War
  • 4 Heroes and the Dead
  • 5 Fear and Destruction
  • 6 Postwar Complexities
  • 7 The American Occupation, or the Present Versus the Past
  • 8 The Plurality of History
  • 9 Individual Conscience and Collective Inertia
  • 10 Memory and Religion
  • 11 From Monument to Museum
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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