 | The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory Subjects: World War 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Historiography; Collective memory -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Memory -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; World War 1939-1945 -- Influence; War and society -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; J; 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. Michael Lucken is a professor at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris. He is the author of Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao (Columbia, 2015) and a coeditor of Japan's Postwar (2011). |
