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Klappentext A considerable amount of writing has been published on Japan at war in WWII. Scholars have been revisiting the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5. This volume examines Japan's twentieth-century approach to war and militarism in a wider perspective, bringing hitherto unexamined new themes and subject-matter under scrutiny up to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Introduction. PART I: HISTORY. 1 Japan's Tug of War after the Russo-Japanese War; 2 Facing a Dilemma: Japan's Jewish Policy in the Late 1930s; 3 Ethnicity and Gender in the Wartime Japanese Revue Theatre; 4 'The terrible Weapon of the Gravely Injured' - Mishima Yukio's Literature and the War; 5 Reenacting a Failed Revolution: The February 26 Incident in Theatre and Film. PART II: IDENTITY IN HISTORY. 6 Imperial Japan and Its POWs: The Dilemma of Humaneness and National Identity; 7 Japan's Defeat in the Second World War: The Cultural Dimension; 8 Jewish Scientists! Jewish Ethics and the Making of the Atomic Bomb; 9 The Memory of the Second World War and the Essence of 'New Japan': The Parliamentary Debate Over Japan's Democratic Constitution. PART III: IDENTITY CONSTRUCTED. 10 Lives Divided in the Second World War: The Individual and the Master Narrative of War; 11 Sadako Sasaki and Anne Frank: Myths in Japanese and Israeli Memory of the Second World War; 12 Death and the Japanese Self-Defence Forces: Anticipation! Deployment and Cultural Scripts; 13 A Fragile Balance between 'Normalization' and the Revival of Nationalistic Sentiments; 14 The Effect of Japanese Colonial Brutality on Shaping Korean Identity: An Analysis of a Prison Turned Memorial Site in Seoul. Bibliography. Index
