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List of illustrations | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. x |
Notes on text | p. xi |
List of abbreviations and glossary | p. xii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The 'orthodox' interpretation of Japanese war memories | p. 2 |
'Memory rifts': reframing the discussion of Japanese war memories | p. 7 |
Historical consciousness in contemporary Japan | p. 10 |
Theoretical approaches to the study of war memory | p. 10 |
Towards an 'integrated approach' | p. 12 |
Judgemental war memory | p. 18 |
Japanese war memories: a hypothesis | p. 20 |
A media/cultural studies approach | p. 28 |
The war representations business: a hypothesis | p. 31 |
Conclusions | p. 35 |
The 'long postwar' | p. 37 |
Occupation, 1945-52 | p. 38 |
Japan's return to the international community, 1952-72 | p. 42 |
To the end of the Showa era and '1955 system', 1972-93 | p. 48 |
Japan's contested war memories in the Heisei era, 1994-2005 | p. 56 |
Conclusions | p. 63 |
'Addressing the past' | p. 65 |
State-centredness: the official narrative and its importance | p. 65 |
Human rights vs state rights: international backing for Japan's compensation policy | p. 67 |
The role of American policy | p. 70 |
'The orthodoxy' and Japanese war memories | p. 73 |
Culturally deterministic approaches | p. 75 |
International comparisons | p. 78 |
Conclusions | p. 83 |
The war as a current affairs issue | p. 85 |
The war as front-page news | p. 85 |
Prime ministerial apologies vs Yasukuni worship | p. 87 |
The fiftieth anniversary statement and politicians' gaffes | p. 94 |
The press taboo: criticizing the emperor | p. 96 |
The 'comfort women', lawsuits and compensation | p. 98 |
Textbooks | p. 100 |
The A-bombs | p. 102 |
Returnees | p. 104 |
Conclusions | p. 105 |
August commemorations | p. 107 |
Television and war memories | p. 107 |
War-related television: 1991-2005 | p. 110 |
NHK's survey of war-related programming in 1995 | p. 114 |
The politics of war-related television | p. 116 |
The sixtieth anniversary as seen on TV | p. 123 |
Conclusions | p. 130 |
History and ideology | p. 131 |
Publishing and the selective historical gaze | p. 132 |
Consuming ideological debate | p. 137 |
Ideological confrontation: the liberalist view of history | p. 140 |
History at school: textbook content vs history education | p. 144 |
Conclusions | p. 150 |
War stories | p. 151 |
War cinema and war memories | p. 151 |
Japanese war cinema: an overview | p. 153 |
War cinema: 1972-2005 | p. 155 |
The secrets of success in war cinema | p. 159 |
The challenges of progressive film-making | p. 161 |
Television dramas | p. 163 |
Simulation fiction | p. 167 |
Conclusions | p. 169 |
Regional memories | p. 170 |
Local memories, local victimhood | p. 170 |
War museums in Japan | p. 171 |
The politics of war and peace exhibits | p. 172 |
Consuming museums: museums as sites of education | p. 175 |
Japanese pacifisms | p. 177 |
Air raids: from distinctive local memories to generic narrative | p. 180 |
Okinawa: unique and personalized memories | p. 185 |
Conclusions | p. 187 |
War and the family | p. 188 |
Testimony: the voice of the individual | p. 189 |
War and the family: when love and historical consciousness collide | p. 192 |
War guilt: inherited traumas in Japanese families | p. 193 |
Patriotism: commemorating sacrifice | p. 197 |
The war and day-to-day family relationships | p. 198 |
Activism: the personal is political | p. 200 |
Conclusions | p. 203 |
Epilogue: beyond the sixtieth anniversary | p. 205 |
Critiques of orthodox arguments | p. 211 |
Notes | p. 226 |
Bibliography | p. 230 |
Index | p. 245 |
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