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Testimony and War Memories in Japan: Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Philip Seaton
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“Testimony and War Memories in Japan”, comprising two essays and an introduction, brings together a most unlikely pair of Japanese authors: Kurahashi Ayako and Kobayashi Yoshinori. The first essay, “War and Responsibility in a Japanese Family”, is a selection of extracts from Kurahashi Ayako's autobiographical book My Father's Dying Wish (Paulownia Press, 2009). It describes the effects on her and her family of her father's deathbed request: for an apology to be placed on his gravestone for his actions as a military policeman (kempei) in China during World War II. The second essay, “Historiography and War Nationalism in Japan”, is a study of the uses of testimony within Kobayashi Yoshinori's bestselling manga Sensōron, On War (Gentōsha, 1998).

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 32 , August 2010 , e1
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