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Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese ...

Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese ...

Yoshikuni Igarashi

Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945-1970 Yoshikuni Igarashi. Copyright © 2000 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: ...
Monumenta Nipponica

Monumenta Nipponica

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By Yoshi- kuni Igarashi. Princeton University Press, 2000. 284 pages. Hardback $49.50/£33.50; paperback $19.95/£ 12.95. Julian Dierkes East Asia Institute, University of Cambridge Yoshikuni Igarashi traces the postwar narratives ...
Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers

Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers

Yoshikuni Igarashi

Homecomings tells the story of these late-returning Japanese soldiers and their struggle to succeed in a newly peaceful and prosperous society.
Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese ...

Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese ...

Yoshikuni Igarashi

The author's juxtaposition of examples from different cultural registers is distinctive, persuasive, and provocative, and the book is a pleasure to read."--Carol Gluck, Columbia University "This is history writing at its best.
The Human Tradition in Modern Japan

The Human Tradition in Modern Japan

Anne Walthall

YOSHIKUNI IGARASHI japan captured the South Pacific islands of Wake and Guam days after its attack on Pearl Harbor. Slightly smaller than Molokai with a land area of 2 03 square miles, Guam witnessed a fierce battle before being ...
Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy ...

Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy ...

Yukiko Koga

On the construction of these postwar narratives, see, for example, Yoshikuni Igarashi, Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945–1970 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000); Lisa Yoneyama, ...
An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the ...

An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the ...

Marc Levinson

THE EXPORT MACHINE 1. Yoshikuni Igarashi, Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945–1970 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000), 201. See also Jayson Makoto Chun, A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots: A Social ...
Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora

Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora

Kandice Chuh

... Americans remain inconspicuous within Japan despite the popular desire to cast Japan as a hybrid society. The perceived in-betweenness of Japanese Americans was appropriated by postwar Japanese society as 244 Yoshikuni Igarashi.
Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, ...

Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, ...

Beatrice Trefalt

Yoshida Yutaka, Yoshikuni Igarashi and James Orr have made especially significant contributions towards charting changing representations of the war in post-war Japan. In Nihonjin no senso ̄kan: rekishi no naka no henyo ̄ ( Japanese ...
Ruptured Histories: War, Memory, and the Post-Cold War in Asia

Ruptured Histories: War, Memory, and the Post-Cold War in Asia

Sheila Miyoshi Jager

YOSHIKUNI IGARASHI Since the formal i n t r o d u c t i o n of kamikaze missions during the Asia-Pacific War, the young pilots who manned the suicide missions have been widely represented in Japanese culture. Although postwar Japanese  ...
Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose

Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose

Kenneth Pyle

2, The Changing International Context, editedby Takashi Inoguchi and DanielI. Okimoto (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988), p.346. 18. Igarashi Takeshi, “PeaceMaking and Party Politics: The Formation of the Domestic ForeignPolicy ...

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