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Index
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on text
List of abbreviations and glossary
Introduction
The 'orthodox' interpretation of Japanese war memories
'Memory rifts': reframing the discussion of Japanese war memories
1 Historical consciousness in contemporary Japan
Theoretical approaches to the study of war memory
Towards an 'integrated approach'
Judgemental war memory
Japanese war memories: a hypothesis
A media/cultural studies approach
The war representations business: a hypothesis
Conclusions
2 The 'long postwar'
Occupation, 1945–52
Japan's return to the international community, 1952–72
To the end of the Showa era and '1955 system', 1972–93
Japan's contested war memories in the Heisei era, 1994–2005
Conclusions
3 'Addressing the past'
State-centredness: the official narrative and its importance
Human rights vs state rights: international backing for Japan's compensation policy
The role of American policy
'The orthodoxy' and Japanese war memories
Culturally deterministic approaches
International comparisons
Conclusions
4 The war as a current affairs issue
The war as front-page news
Prime ministerial apologies vs Yasukuni worship
The fiftieth anniversary statement and politicians' gaffes
The press taboo: criticizing the emperor
The 'comfort women', lawsuits and compensation
Textbooks
The A-bombs
Returnees
Conclusions
5 August commemorations
Television and war memories
War-related television: 1991–2005
NHK's survey of war-related programming in 1995
The politics of war-related television
The sixtieth anniversary as seen on TV
Conclusions
6 History and ideology
Publishing and the selective historical gaze
Consuming ideological debate
Ideological confrontation: the liberalist view of history
History at school: textbook content vs history education
Conclusions
7 War stories
War cinema and war memories
Japanese war cinema: an overview
War cinema: 1972–2005
The secrets of success in war cinema
The challenges of progressive film-making
Television dramas
Simulation fiction
Conclusions
8 Regional memories
Local memories, local victimhood
War museums in Japan
The politics of war and peace exhibits
Consuming museums: museums as sites of education
Japanese pacifisms
Air raids: from distinctive local memories to generic narrative
Okinawa: unique and personalized memories
Conclusions
9 War and the family
Testimony: the voice of the individual
War and the family: when love and historical consciousness collide
War guilt: inherited traumas in Japanese families
Patriotism: commemorating sacrifice
The war and day-to-day family relationships
Activism: the personal is political
Conclusions
Epilogue: beyond the sixtieth anniversary
Appendix: critiques of orthodox arguments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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