... war crimes postwar responsibility memory studies The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle In 2020 Murakami Haruki surprised his readers by publishing a personal memoir, Abandoning a Cat: Memories of My Father ( Neko o suteru: Chichioya ni tsuite kataru toki ). In this slim piece, the world-famous...

... been responsible for formulating a policy toward the interwar labor union movement that mixed social reform and control. The author describes the ways in which these “social bureaucrats” perpetuated themselves and their distinctive approach to social stability in the postwar era. Their influence...

... and contested within larger fields of power. Six chapters focus on Japan: Franziska Seraphim describes how Japanese are reworking the national narrative of victimhood and coming to grips with postwar responsibility; Carol Gluck provides a theoretically sophisticated analysis of the “coming into memory...

... in the postwar era. Mobilization for military duty or for work made the students feel that they were responsible for the fate of their country. However, their youthful outburst of patriotism came to an end with Japan's defeat. Feelings of betrayal and disillusionment nurtured the extreme patriotism and militancy...

... touchy subjects such as war atrocities, war responsibility, and the continued existence of the emperor system in the postwar era. No doubt that threats of right-wing terrorism aimed at even the mildest of critics of Japan's involvement in the Fifteen-Year War (1931–45) have done their share...

...Laura E. Hein Abstract M ost discussions of economic growth and economic policy in postwar Japan focus on the economy as an isolated sector, neglecting its place in Japanese history as a whole. Partly this is because discussion of the economy usually moves quickly to technical problems. Partly...

... identifies the rapid increase in bonus incomes as oine of the powerful factors responsible for fast rising personal savings in postwar Japan. 27 Op cit. , p. 236. 28 See Yearbook of Labor Statistics , 1964, pp. 58–59 and Japan's Labor Statistics , 1967, p. 82. Labor Institutions...

...Lisa J. Arensen Abstract This article explores one Cambodian village's engagement with the remains of the dead encountered during postwar resettlement. For Khmer Buddhists, the correct material transformation of the bodies of the dead is critical, but these processes were often disrupted...

... examination of the meaning and possibilities of liberal democracy in postwar Japan. The significance of Maruyama's writings (and of Kersten's book) is evident from the templates of this study: war responsibility, autonomy (shutaisei), Marxism, modernization, fascism, pacifism, the I960 security treaty crisis...

... a "defense of Hirohito for the trial he never faced," the book is "an affirmation of Japan's allegedly more 'democratic' and 'open' postwar monarchy." It seems to me that Large merely repeats my summary in a slightly different way in his response except that he appears to deny that, as I put it, he...

... the right questions. Given "the extraordinary foreign policy of postwar Japan, which chose to concentrate exclusively on economic growth, to remain lightly armed, and to trade bases on Japanese soil in return for an American security guarantee . . . can Japan be trusted to participate responsibly...

...) asserted educators’ special role in postwar democracy. Beginning in the late 1940s, the JTU advocated an antimilitarist educational campaign on war responsibility that significantly influenced the writing of the Peace Principles, which were central to the political platform of the Japan Socialist Party...

... of its infrastructure a constitution, political parties, free elections, free press and popular rights. Internalized patterns of thought and action are equally essential (p. 285). George concludes that postwar democracy as practiced by Japanese citizens and exemplified by responses to the Minamata...

... Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 Approaches to Postwar Japanese Literature Introduction BETSEY SCHEINER FOR MANY JAPANESE the events of August 1945 placed their country in a special position. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki gave Japan the dubious distinction of being the only country to have sustained...

... conflict, and consumer and anti-war protests. The police's response, or lack of response, and their collusion with powerful interest groups to quell protest and break unions has long been documented by Japanese and foreign observers. This history of protecting the powerful in the Japanese state is missing...

... cultural and national formations? Slaymaker, in his introduction, hints at one way to think about the confluence of postwar nations as distinct yet coexistent responses to a traumatic origin (national guilt and failure). The paradigm of confluence might enable a productive encounter between area studies...

.... This is a welcome contribution to the study of Chosŏn Korea, which remains lackluster in the English-language scholarship. However, it should be noted that Haboush's key argument—that the postwar vision of the Chosŏn community helped sustain the Chosŏn state for three more centuries—is too narrowly based. Depending...

...William Kelly Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan . By Frank K. Upham . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1987 . viii, 262 pp. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 656 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES a representative conservative...

... consciousness that stabilized” not only wartime but also postwar Japanese society (p. 3). Kushner ascribes an almost omni-potent agency to Japan's wartime propaganda in explaining not only why Japan's 15-year-long Asia-Pacific War lasted so long, but also why it helped postwar Japan rebuild so quickly...

...Kathleen Uno Japan's Postwar History . By Gary D. Allinson . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 1997 . xvi, 208 pp. $39.96 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 221 Hartog's work ends in the year 1502...