Victim As Hero Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan

Name: Victim As Hero Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan
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ISBN: 9780824824358

ISBN-10: 0824824350

ISBN-13: 9780824824358

Edition: 2001

Authors: James J. Orr

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This work examines the emergence of victim consciousness as a of Japanese national identity after World War II. It shows how postwar Japanese elites and American occupying authorities collaborated to structure the parameters of remembrance.

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 4/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.90" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Victims, Victimizers, and Mythology



Leaders and Victims: Personal War Responsibility During the Occupation



Hiroshima and Yuiitsu no hibakukoku: Atomic Victimhood in the Antinuclear Peace Movement



Educating a Peace-Loving People: Narratives of War in Postwar Textbooks



"Sentimental Humanism": The Victim in Novels and Film



Compensating Victims: The Politics of Victimhood



Beyond the Postwar


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