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