The Japanese and the War : Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory /
Michael Lucken.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Names -- Introduction -- 1 The Nation out to Conquer -- 2 A Totalitarian Dynamic, 1940–1945 -- 3 The Meaning of the War -- 4 Heroes and the Dead -- 5 Fear and Destruction -- 6 Postwar Complexities -- 7 The American Occupation, or the Present Versus the Past -- 8 The Plurality of History -- 9 Individual Conscience and Collective Inertia -- 10 Memory and Religion -- 11 From Monument to Museum -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index