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Current Issue: Volume 36, Issue 2 (2024) Japan: War and Cultural Trauma
This issue of The New England Journal of Public Policy addresses key components of the unprocessed cultural trauma Japan continues to experience that has precluded it from coming to terms with its past, both as perpetrator and victim of three wars in which Japan was deeply involved: the Asia-Pacific, the Pacific, and World War II.Front Matter
Editor's Note
Editor's Note
Padraig O'Malley
Articles
Photo Essay
Eugen Koh
Opening Remarks
Eugen Koh, Tadashi Takeshima, and Shigeyuki Mori
Working on Documentary Films about World War II and Japan
Makoto Higashino
How Did the War Escalate and What Happened?
Toshiya Iko
War Orphans Suffered Most from 'Relatives'
Yutaka Honjo
First Symposium Discussion
Carrie Cheng and Eri Nakamura
Media's Responsibility for the War: the Picture Book Faithful Elephants, Read as a Descendant of a State-Sponsored News Agency
Hisashi Sasaki
Medical Care and Relief for Wounded Soldiers and Civilians
Toshiya Ichinose
How Were the War Dead Treated in Japan? Developments of Recovering the Overseas Remains of Japanese War Dead
Kazufumi Hamai
Remembering the Dead in Silence: Formation and Transformation of National Mourning in Modern Japan
Kenta Awazu
Discussant of the Second Symposium: 'Inability to Mourn' and Mythical Thinking in Postwar Japan
Kai Ogimoto
Second Symposium Discussion
Carrie Cheng and Shigeyuki Mori
Impact of Late-Onset PTSD on the Community of Okinawa
Ryoji Aritsuka
Suffering, Struggling, and Searching for Meaning: Rethinking the Perspective of Atomic Bomb Survivors in Japan
Masaya Nemoto
Discussant of the Third Symposium
Kenji Kawano
Third Symposium Discussion
Carrie Cheng and Kenta Awazu
Efforts to Heal the Transgenerational Trauma of Nanjing
Kuniko Muramoto
Long-Term Impact of World War II on Suicide in Japan
Tadashi Takeshima
Post-Memory of the War Experience as a Child of a Demobilized Soldier: Reflections on Embodied Military Experience
Shinzo Araragi
Discussant of the Fourth Symposium: 'Conspiracy of Silence' as a Symptom of the Long-Term Effects of War
Tsuyoshi Kitamura
Fourth Symposium Discussion
Carrie Cheng and Kenji Kawano
Summary of the Third Symposium: Trauma and Positionality—Japan as Victim and Perpetrator of the War
Kenta Awazu
Fifth Symposium Discussion
Carrie Cheng and Tadashi Takeshima
Closing Remarks
Tadashi Takeshima
Editors
- Editor
- Padraig O'Malley
- Guest Editor
- Eugen Koh
- Copy Editor
- K. Rhett Nichols
- Citation Editor
- Erin K. Maher
- Design Editor
- Paul Cain