LEADER 04057nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910461561203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-37991-0 010 $a9786613379917 010 $a1-4008-4298-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400842988 035 $a(CKB)2670000000133442 035 $a(EBL)827793 035 $a(OCoLC)769343158 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000632733 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11386503 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000632733 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10609864 035 $a(PQKB)10009507 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC827793 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37069 035 $a(DE-B1597)447470 035 $a(OCoLC)1054882065 035 $a(OCoLC)979624250 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400842988 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL827793 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10521856 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL337991 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000133442 100 $a19991201d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBodies of memory$b[electronic resource] $enarratives of war in postwar Japanese culture, 1945-1970 /$fYoshikuni Igarashi 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (x, 284 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-04911-4 311 $a0-691-04912-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-274) and index. 327 $tThe Bomb, Hirohito, and History: The Foundational Narrative of Postwar Relations between Japan and the United States --$tThe Age of the Body --$tA Nation That Never Is: Cultural Discourse on Japanese Uniqueness --$tNaming the Unnameable --$tFrom the Anti-Security Treaty Movement to the Tokyo Olympics: Transforming the Body, the Metropolis, and Memory --$tRe-presenting Trauma in Late-1960s Japan. 330 $aJapan and the United States became close political allies so quickly after the end of World War II, that it seemed as though the two countries had easily forgotten the war they had fought. Here Yoshikuni Igarashi offers a provocative look at how Japanese postwar society struggled to understand its war loss and the resulting national trauma, even as forces within the society sought to suppress these memories. Igarashi argues that Japan's nationhood survived the war's destruction in part through a popular culture that expressed memories of loss and devastation more readily than political discourse ever could. He shows how the desire to represent the past motivated Japan's cultural productions in the first twenty-five years of the postwar period. Japanese war experiences were often described through narrative devices that downplayed the war's disruptive effects on Japan's history. Rather than treat these narratives as obstacles to historical inquiry, Igarashi reads them along with counter-narratives that attempted to register the original impact of the war. He traces the tensions between remembering and forgetting by focusing on the body as the central site for Japan's production of the past. This approach leads to fascinating discussions of such diverse topics as the use of the atomic bomb, hygiene policies under the U.S. occupation, the monstrous body of Godzilla, the first Western professional wrestling matches in Japan, the transformation of Tokyo and the athletic body for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and the writer Yukio Mishima's dramatic suicide, while providing a fresh critical perspective on the war legacy of Japan. 606 $aHISTORY / Asia / Japan$2bisacsh 607 $aJapan$xCivilization$y1945- 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aHISTORY / Asia / Japan. 676 $a952.04 700 $aIgarashi$b Yoshikuni$f1960-$01037784 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461561203321 996 $aBodies of memory$92458953 997 $aUNINA