Japan's Postwar

Michael Lucken is Professor at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France.Anne Bayard-Sakai is Professor and literary specialist at Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France.Emmanuel Lozerand is Professor of Japanese language and literature at Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France.

• Introduction Part 1: The Multiplicity of Chronologies, or The Postwar as Focus 1. The Postwar as Political Paradigm 2. The Evolution of the Concept of ‘Postwar Education’ Part 2: The Intellectuals Facing the Future 3. Maruyama Masao, From Autonomy to Pacifism 4. At the Time, after the Defeat: Sakaguchi Ango, Takeda Taijun, Takeuchi Yoshimi (1946-1948) 5. Yasuoka Masahiro, a Conservative Vision of the Postwar Part 3: How Should One Speak? The Poets’ Response 6. ‘Genzai’, Here and Now 7. Speaking Silence: The Poetry of Ishihara Yoshirō Part 4: Forgetting, Commemoration, Perversion: The Regimes of Memory 8. The Literary Institution and the Case of the Akutagawa Prize 9. The ‘Statue for Peace’ in Nagasaki 10. Repression of History and Engagement of the Body Part 5: Complex Experiences: Society on the Road to Democracy 11. The ‘Red Purges’ and the Democratisation of Japan, 1949-196212 Labour Relations during the Years of High Growth 13. The Postwar for Workers’ Unionism and Movements Against Industrial Pollution

"Arthur Stockwin deserves commendation on his fine and eminently readable translation of the volume from the original French... The authors represented here enrich our knowledge on a number of fronts by drawing links between war and after, and thereby suggest different understandings and approaches of how to conceptualise and periodise postwar Japan." - Erik Ropers, Towson University; Japanese Studies (Australia), vol. 32, no. 4, December 2012.