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Japan and the United States became close political allies so quickly after the end of World War II, that it seemed as though the two countries had easily forgotten the war they had fought. Here Yoshikuni Igarashi offers a provocative look at how Japanese postwar society struggled to understand its war loss and the resulting national trauma, even as forces within the society sought to suppress these memories. Igarashi argues that Japan's nationhood survived the war's destruction in part through a popular culture that expressed memories of loss and devastation more readily than political discourse ever could. He shows how the desire to represent the past motivated Japan's cultural productions in the first twenty-five years of the postwar period. Japanese war experiences were often described through narrative devices that downplayed the war's disruptive effects on Japan's history. Rather than treat these narratives as obstacles to historical inquiry, Igarashi reads them along with counter-narratives that attempted to register the original impact of the war. He traces the tensions between remembering and forgetting by focusing on the body as the central site for Japan's production of the past. This approach leads to fascinating discussions of such diverse topics as the use of the atomic bomb, hygiene policies under the U.S. occupation, the monstrous body of Godzilla, the first Western professional wrestling matches in Japan, the transformation of Tokyo and the athletic body for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and the writer Yukio Mishima's dramatic suicide, while providing a fresh critical perspective on the war legacy of Japan.

J3000 --- J3384 --- J3389 --- Japan: History -- historiography, theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- Shōwa period -- World War II (1931-1945) --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- Shōwa period -- World War II -- occupation period (1945-1952) --- Japan --- Civilization

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J3389 --- J4815.11 --- J4000.80 --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- Shōwa period -- World War II -- occupation period (1945-1952) --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- North America -- United States --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan --- History

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"Sasakawa Tyoichi's Sugamo Diary is a fascinating document, and Sasakawa is a fascinating person. His prison-based reflections and attitude toward communists and his American captors, as well as toward fellow Japanese citizens, including the emperor and other class-A war criminals, all make for fascinating reading."--John Breen, editor Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan's Past. Sasakawa Ryoichi was a wealthy business tycoon, statesman, nationalist leader, philanthropist, and suspected war criminal. Many have also cast him as a Japanese don, power broker, political fixer, and right-wing godfather. In these diaries and letters, written by Sasakawa himself, a strikingly different picture emerges, one that reveals a man fighting to adhere to his convictions within an ethical system that placed Japan's well-being above all other concerns. From 1945 to 1948, Sasakawa was imprisoned in Sugamo with a host of other class-A war criminals. His path to incarceration was uniquely dramatic: he volunteered for indictment in order to protect the emperor and the nation from the consequences of victor's justice. Sasakawa's motivations are apparent in his writing, along with his relentless criticism of Japan's wartime leaders, in which he challenges the behavior of the Tokyo court and warns against the adoption of postwar Japanese communism. Sasakawa instead proposed that Japan pursue friendly relations with the West, including the United States. After his release in 1948, he founded what is now the Nippon Foundation, a philanthropic body that became, under his leadership, Japan's largest charitable organizations. Through an intimate encounter with Sasakawa's thoughts, struggles, and philosophy, this vibrant volume introduces one of the twentieth century's most influential political figures.

Industrialists --- War criminals --- Sasakawa, Ryōichi, --- Japan --- Economic conditions --- History --- Social conditions --- Criminals --- Manufacturers --- Businesspeople --- Sasakawa, Ryōichi, --- Sasagawa, Ryōichi, --- 笹川良一, --- J2284.80 --- J4122 --- J3389 --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- Gendai, modern (1926- ), Shōwa, 20th century --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- nationalism --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- Shōwa period -- World War II -- occupation period (1945-1952)

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The Allied occupation of Japan is remembered as the "good occupation." An American-led coalition successfully turned a militaristic enemy into a stable and democratic ally. Of course, the story was more complicated, but the occupation did forge one of the most enduring relationships in the postwar world. Recent events, from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan to protests over American bases in Japan to increasingly aggressive territorial disputes between Asian nations over islands in the Pacific, have brought attention back to the subject of the occupation of Japan.In Architects of Occupation, Dayna L. Barnes exposes the wartime origins of occupation policy and broader plans for postwar Japan. She considers the role of presidents, bureaucrats, think tanks, the media, and Congress in policymaking. Members of these elite groups came together in an informal policy network that shaped planning. Rather than relying solely on government reports and records to understand policymaking, Barnes also uses letters, memoirs, diaries, and manuscripts written by policymakers to trace the rise and spread of ideas across the policy network. The book contributes a new facet to the substantial literature on the occupation, serves as a case study in foreign policy analysis, and tells a surprising new story about World War II.

Japanologists --- Postwar reconstruction --- Policy sciences --- J3389 --- J4000.80 --- Policy-making --- Policymaking --- Public policy management --- Post-conflict reconstruction --- Reconstruction, Postwar --- Japanese studies specialists --- East Asia specialists --- History --- Planning --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- Shōwa period -- World War II -- occupation period (1945-1952) --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan --- United States --- Foreign relations --- Planning. --- United States. --- Japan.

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Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948 --- J4833.20 --- J4850 --- J3389 --- Japan: International politics and law -- international court -- International Military Tribunal for the Far East (1946-1948) --- Japan: International law -- law of peace and war (including war crimes) --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- Shōwa period -- World War II -- occupation period (1945-1952) --- Tokyo Trial, 1946-1948 --- Tokyo War Crimes Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948 --- War crime trials --- Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948.