Japanese war experiences were often described through narrative devices that downplayed the war's disruptive effects on Japan's history. He shows how the desire to represent the past motivated Japan's cultural productions in the first twenty-five years of the postwar period. 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. 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. Japan 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.
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