Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War: The Yakeato Generation Book

Part I: Setting the stage for the yakeato generation 1. Introduction: Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War: The yakeato (the Burnt-Out Ruins) Generation Roman Rosenbaum 2. Current Postwar Discourse in Japan (Suzuki Sadami) Part II: Pre-yakeato: Provenance of a Generation To Come 3. ÅŒhara Tomie and A Woman Called En Hiroko Kobayashi 4. The Legacy of Watanabe Kazuo Yasuko Claremont Part III: The Yakeato Cohort: Offspring of War 5. The Legacy of the yakeato Generation: Oda Makoto’s Literary Social Criticism Roman Rosenbaum 6. A yakeato Poet: Irisawa Yasuo Yasuko Claremont 7. Ariyoshi Sawako and Sono Ayako: Young Women Writers of the Yakeato Generation Barbara Hartley Part IV: Post-yakeato: The Heritage of a Generation 8. Graphic Depictions of the Asia-Pacific War Roman Rosenbaum 9. Laughter and Tears: The Complex Narrative of Nosaka Akiyuki's Hotaru no haka Hiroko Cockerill 10. Japanese Poetry and the Legacies of War Leith Morton 11. Language and Body: Betsuyaku Minoru and the ‘Small Theatre Movement’ Shōgekijō Undō in the 1960s Masahito Takayashiki 12. Kuroki Kazuo’s Requiem for War Carol Hayes 13. Architecture in the Mono-no-nai jidai Peter Armstrong 14. Summation: Children of War Yasuko Claremont 15. Yakeato Research Bibliography