Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-386) and index.
Contents:
Introduction. Japan's history of war memory: a framework ; The first postwar decade, 1945-1955 ; Interest-based struggles over memory, 1950s-1970s ; Global memory cultures since the 1980s -- Part I. War memory and democratic rebuilding. 1. The politics of essentialism: the Association of Shinto Shrines. Discarding the state, embracing the emperor ; Shrines for the people ; Memory and Shinto restorationism -- 2. Fashioning national heroes: The Japan Association of War-bereaved Families. Creating a community of war bereaved families ; Gendered memory: war widows ; Social welfare measures ; Bereavement and nationalism -- 3. Forging political subjectivity: The Japan Teachers' Union. Riding the wave of democratic change ; The struggle against state coercion ; Never send our students to the battlefield again! -- 4. People's diplomacy: The Japan-China Friendship Association. Responsibility evaded: reparations and an "incomplete" peace ; Grassroots diplomacy ; Remembering Japanese aggression -- 5. Commemorative pacifism: The Japan Memorial Society for the Students Killed in the War. The dead and the living ; Packaging the Wadatsumi Voices ; The politics of pacifism -- Part II. The political dynamics of war memory. 6. War memory and generational change: refashioning special interests. The changing temporality of the past ; The emergence of "generational memory" ; The Anti-Security Treaty crisis ; Managing the transmission of memory -- 7. Memory between special and national interests: Japan and Asia. Framing national memories of war ; Postwar "settlements" with South Korea ; The specter of Japanese militarism ; The debate over Okinawa's reversion to Japan ; Individual action as counter-memory -- 8. Patronizing the war dead: the contested rites of official memory. Site of memory, symbol of nation ; The "Yasukuni question" ; The contested memory of the war dead ; Organizing popular nationalism -- Part III. Changing geographies of memory. 9. The politics of apology. Comparing postwar responsibilities ; The apology conundrum ; Toward reconciliation -- 10. Cultures of commemoration at century's end. Confronting silences: the devil's gluttony ; Galvanizing popular audiences: last friends ; The Izokukai's last hurrah? The Showa-kan ; The discourse about war responsibility at the turn of the millennium -- Conclusion.
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