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Title: Implicating Colonial Memory and the Atomic Bombing: Hayashi Kyoko's Three Short Stories.
Author : Southeast Review of Asian Studies
Release Date : January 01, 2005
Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
Pages : * pages
Size : 232 KB

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Introduction In the official political discourse about the atomic bombings in Japan, the bombings are a collective national experience of victimization for all the Japanese. (1) Such a view of the atomic bombings creates a myth of Japanese wartime victimhood and also leaves out Japan's colonial history and military aggression in Asia prior to Japan's defeat in World War II. (2) Instead of situating the atomic bombings within the larger context of Japan's modern history, the official discourse of the atomic bombings treats the bombings as "uniquely traumatizing events," isolated from the events before and after them. (3) The act of obscuring Japan's imperialist past manifests the nationalist agenda and conservative politics of postwar Japan.