TY - BOOK AU - Lucken,Michael AU - Grimwade,Karen TI - The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory T2 - Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture Series SN - 9780231543989 AV - D743.42 .L835 2017 U1 - 940.5352 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - World War, 1939-1945-Japan-Historiography KW - Collective memory-Japan-History-20th century KW - Memory-Social aspects-Japan-History-20th century KW - World War, 1939-1945-Influence KW - War and society-Japan-History-20th century KW - Japan-Social conditions-20th century KW - Japan-Intellectual life-20th century KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Names -- Introduction -- 1. The Nation Out to Conquer -- 2. A Totalitarian Dynamic, 1940-1945 -- 3. The Meaning of the War -- 4. Heroes and the Dead -- 5. Fear and Destruction -- 6. Postwar Complexities -- 7. The American Occupation, or the Present Versus the Past -- 8. The Plurality of History -- 9. Individual Conscience and Collective Inertia -- 10. Memory and Religion -- 11. From Monument to Museum: The Difficult Path to Healing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index N2 - Japanese memories of World War II exert a powerful influence over the nation's society and culture. Michael Lucken explores how the war manifested in literature, art, film, funerary practices, and education reform, creating an idea of Japanese identity that still resonates from soap operas to the response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5275999 ER -