Screen LibraryThe Japanese and the War : from expectation to memory /
"This book examines the culture and society of Japan primarily during the years immediately before and after WWII (1937-1952), but it also reaches back to the 1920s and even touches upon events as recent as the Fukushima nuclear disaster. In doing so, Lucken argues that the ways of remembering...
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Columbia University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English French |
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Asia perspectives : history, society, and culture
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"This book examines the culture and society of Japan primarily during the years immediately before and after WWII (1937-1952), but it also reaches back to the 1920s and even touches upon events as recent as the Fukushima nuclear disaster. In doing so, Lucken argues that the ways of remembering WWII continue to define the present in Japan and elsewhere. His cultural focus includes not just literature and art, but topics such as propaganda films, clothing restrictions, and educational reform, with a particular emphasis on representations and ideas transmitted through mass media. The most impor |
| Item Description: | Translated from the French. |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780231177023 023117702X 0231543980 9780231543989 |
| Index Number: | D743 |
| CLC: | K313.45 |
| Call Number: | K313.45/L941 |
| Contents: | 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: The Difficult Path to Healing. |