Japanese Society at War

Naoko Shimazu's major publications include Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia (co-editor, 2013), Nationalisms in Japan (editor, 2006) and Japan, Race and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919 (1998). She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Professorial Associate of the Japan Research Centre at SOAS, University of London, Associate of MEARC at Leiden University, and a former Japan Foundation Fellow. She serves on the editorial boards of Japan Forum, Modern Asian Studies, Reviews in History, and Theory, Culture and Society. Her current major project is a monograph, Diplomacy as Theatre: Asian and African Performances at the Bandung Conference of 1955.

• Introduction; 1. Society in conflict; 2. Journey of farewell; 3. Honourable war death; 4. Local patriots; 5. Love thy enemy; 6. God of war; 7. War in popular cultural memory; Epilogue.

Review of the hardback: '… a fascinating account of how war, government, and society interact.' Journal of Military History