Homecomings The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) by YoshikuniIgarashi Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2016 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-17770-2, ISBN: 0-231-17770-4
"Soon after the end of World War II, a majority of the nearly 7 million Japanese civilians and serviceman who had been posted overseas returned home. Heeding the call to rebuild, these veterans helped remake Japan and enjoyed popularized accounts of their service. For those who took longer to be repatriated, such as the POWs detained in labor camps in Siberia and the fighters who spent years hiding in the jungles of islands in the South ..."
Bodies of Memory(1st Edition) by YoshikuniIgarashi Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2000 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-04912-0, ISBN: 0-691-04912-2
"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. 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. Igarashi argues that Japan's ..."
Japan, 1972 Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism (Paperback) by YoshikuniIgarashi Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2021 by Columbia University Press, United States, New York ISBN-13: 978-0-231-19555-3, ISBN: 0-231-19555-9
Bodies of Memory Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945-1970 by YoshikuniIgarashi Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2000 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-04911-3, ISBN: 0-691-04911-4
Homecomings The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) by YoshikuniIgarashi Softcover, Published 2020 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-17771-9, ISBN: 0-231-17771-2
Bodies of Memory Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945-1970 by YoshikuniIgarashi 304 Pages, Published 2012 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4298-8, ISBN: 1-4008-4298-0
"In spite of the stories' contemporaneity, their foci are contrasting. In “American
Hijiki,” Nosaka attempts to reawaken contained memories of the war in postwar
society through his self-caricature, while in “Hotaru no haka” he tries to contain
the disturbing memories through their aestheticization. In “Hotaru no haka,” the
protagonist Seita is a teenage boy, whose parents die in June 1945 during an air
raid at Kobe. Left alone to t ..."
"In modern Japan, where the mechanisms of producing national consensus and social conformity operate with considerable force and efficacy, the democratic credentials of public life are a pressing question. Beginning with the Pacific War and extending through the early 1970s, this issue of positions explores a number of sites in Japan's postwar history where individuals and groups endeavored to reconfigure the social, cultural, and politi ..."
"... of the Daiei supermarket chain, Nakauchi Isao (1922– 2005), survived the
warfare in the Philippines and later publicly admitted feeling survivor's guilt (
Nakauchi Isao et al., “Onoda shōi to warera Taishō sedai no 30 nen,” Gendai,
May 1974, 113). The popular film Kumo nagaruru hateni (directed by Ieki Miyoji,
1953) casts the whole story of kamikaze pilots in this binary, with the selfless
nature of the young soldiers' sacrifice ..."
Haisen No Kioku Shintai, Bunka, Monogatari 1945-1970 by YoshikuniIgarashi Published 2007 by Chuo Koron Shinsha ISBN-13: 978-4-12-003898-3, ISBN: 4-12-003898-X