Secondary Literature / External Links
Secondary Literature
If you are interested to read more about war memory in Japan and Asia at large, you may find the following books of interest:
- Endō, Miyuki. Sen’yūkai rapusodī. Tokyo: Chiheisha, 2024.
- Frühstück, Sabine. Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
- Igarashi, Yoshikuni. Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945-1970. Princeton University Press, 2012.
- Hashimoto, Akiko. The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan. New York, Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Jager, Sheila Miyoshi, and Rana Mitter. Ruptured Histories: War, Memory, and the Post–Cold War in Asia. Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Kushner, Barak, and Sherzod Muminov. Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
- Mullins, Mark. Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2021.
- Senyūkaikenkyūkai. Senyūkai kenkyūnōto. Tokyo: Seikyūsha, 2012. [Japanese]
- Seraphim, Franziska. War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006.
- Shimizu, Ryō. “Yokaren” Senyūkai no shakaigaku: sensō no kioku no katachi. Tokyo: Shinyosha, 2022. [Japanese]
- Takahashi, Saburō et al. Kyōdō kenkyū senyūkai. Tokyo: Inpakuto Shuppankai, 2005. [Japanese]
- Yoneyama, Lisa. Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes. Duke University Press, 2016.
- Zwigenberg, Ran. Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
External Links
The following links may be of further interest to researchers, students, and members of the public interested in Japanese and East/Southeast Asian wartime and post-war history:
- Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire
- Military Culture Research Group: Sociological research on modern Japan’s views on war and peace, and their historical and cultural backgrounds [Japanese]
- National Library Board of Singapore (Learn X: Content on Japanese Occupation)
- Reconceptualizing the Cold War: On-the-ground Experiences in Asia