Akiko Hashimoto is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh; author of Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and kinship in contemporary Japan (SUNY 2008), The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract (CUP 1996), and Family Support for the Elderly: The International Experience (OUP 1992).

• Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Cultural Memory in a Fallen Nation Chapter 2: Repairing Biographies and Aligning Family Memories Chapter 3: Defeat Reconsidered: Heroes, Victims, & Perpetrators in the Popular Media Chapter 4: Pedagogies of War and Peace: Teaching World War II to Children Chapter 5: The Moral Recovery of Defeated Nations: A Global-Comparative Look Notes Bibliography Index

A major achievement, theoretically and empirically, The Long Defeat exposes startling fractures in Japanese identity that will affect regional and global politics for decades to come. Timely and empathic, this is also a deeply disturbing book.

Akiko Hashimoto is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh; author of Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and kinship in contemporary Japan (SUNY 2008), The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract (CUP 1996), and Family Support for the Elderly: The International Experience (OUP 1992).

• Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Cultural Memory in a Fallen Nation Chapter 2: Repairing Biographies and Aligning Family Memories Chapter 3: Defeat Reconsidered: Heroes, Victims, & Perpetrators in the Popular Media Chapter 4: Pedagogies of War and Peace: Teaching World War II to Children Chapter 5: The Moral Recovery of Defeated Nations: A Global-Comparative Look Notes Bibliography Index

A major achievement, theoretically and empirically, The Long Defeat exposes startling fractures in Japanese identity that will affect regional and global politics for decades to come. Timely and empathic, this is also a deeply disturbing book.

Akiko Hashimoto is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh; author of Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and kinship in contemporary Japan (SUNY 2008), The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract (CUP 1996), and Family Support for the Elderly: The International Experience (OUP 1992).

• Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Cultural Memory in a Fallen Nation Chapter 2: Repairing Biographies and Aligning Family Memories Chapter 3: Defeat Reconsidered: Heroes, Victims, & Perpetrators in the Popular Media Chapter 4: Pedagogies of War and Peace: Teaching World War II to Children Chapter 5: The Moral Recovery of Defeated Nations: A Global-Comparative Look Notes Bibliography Index

A major achievement, theoretically and empirically, The Long Defeat exposes startling fractures in Japanese identity that will affect regional and global politics for decades to come. Timely and empathic, this is also a deeply disturbing book.