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Figures and Tables xiv
Introduction 1
Japan's History of War Memory: A Framework 4
The First Postwar Decade, 1945-1955 14
Interest-based Struggles over Memory, 1950s-1970s 20
Global Memory Cultures since the 1980s 25
War Memory and Democratic Rebuilding
The Politics of Essentialism: The Association of Shinto Shrines 35
Discarding the State, Embracing the Emperor 38
Shrines for the People 45
Memory and Shinto Restroationism 50
Fashioning National Heroes: The Japan Association of War-bereaved Families 60
Creating a Community of War-bereaved Families 63
Gendered Memory: War Widows 71
Social Welfare Measures 76
Bereavement and Nationalism 81
Forging Political Subjectivity: The Japan Teachers' Union 86
Riding the Wave of Democratic Change 89
The Struggle against State Coercion 95
Never Send Our Students to the Battlefield Again! 102
People's Diplomacy: The Japan-China Friendship Association 108
Responsibility Evaded: Reparations and an "Incomplete" Peace 113
Grassroots Diplomacy 119
Remembering JapaneseAggression 129
Commemorative Pacifism: The Japan Memorial Society for the Students Killed in the War 135
The Dead and the Living 139
Packaging the Wadatsumi Voices 145
The Politics of Pacifism 149
The Political Dynamics of War Memory
War Memory and Generational Change: Refashioning Special Interests 159
The Changing Temporality of the Past 160
The Emergence of "Generational Memory" 167
The Anti-Security Treaty Crisis 174
Managing the Transmission of Memory 181
Memory between Special and National Interests: Japan and Asia 189
Framing National Memories of War 195
Postwar "Settlements" with South Korea 202
The Specter of Japanese Militarism 206
The Debate over Okinawa's Reversion to Japan 214
Individual Action as Counter-memory 222
Patronizing the War Dead: The Contested Rites of Official Memory 226
Site of Memory, Symbol of Nation 230
The "Yasukuni Question" 235
The Contested Memory of the War Dead 246
Organizing Popular Nationalism 250
Changing Geographies of Memory
The Politics of Apology 261
Comparing Postwar Responsibilities 263
The Apology Conundrum 270
Toward Reconciliation 276
Cultures of Commemoration at Century's End 287
Confronting Silences: The Devil's Gluttony 288
Galvanizing Popular Audiences: Last Friends 295
The Izokukai's Last Hurrah? The Showa-kan 300
The Discourse about War Responsibility at the Turn of the Millennium 305
Conclusion 315
Reference Matter
Notes 327
Bibliography 357
Index 387
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