This is a reading list for my class War History and Memory in Japan. I have chosen articles to try and get a balance of topics. Articles are listed alphabetically by author. I have listed only one article per author to make this primarily a list of leading researchers whose work students should investigate more. Put the author's name into the Japan Focus search engine or Google Scholar to find more of their work
Aydin, Cemil: Japan’s Pan-Asianism and the Legitimacy of Imperial World Order, 1931–1945
Bix, Herbert P. : War Responsibility and Historical Memory: Hirohito’s Apparition
Breen, John: Yasukuni Shrine: Ritual and Memory
Brook, Timothy: Collaboration in War and Memory in East Asia: A Symposium
Buruma, Ian: Eastwood's War: The Battle of Iwo Jima
Dickinson, Frederick R.: Biohazard: Unit 731 in Postwar Japanese Politics of National “Forgetfulness”
Dower, John W.: Ground Zero 1945: Pictures by Atomic Bomb Survivors
Dudden, Alexis: Dangerous Islands: Japan, Korea, and the United States
Field, Norma: The Courts, Japan's 'Military Comfort Women,' and the Conscience of Humanity: The Ruling in VAWW-Net Japan v. NHK
Fujiwara, Akira: The Nanking Atrocity: An Interpretive Overview
Gerow, Aaron: Fantasies of War and Nation in Recent Japanese Cinema
Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi: The Atomic Bombs and the Soviet Invasion: What Drove Japan’s Decision to Surrender?
Hein, Laura and Takenaka, Akiko: Exhibiting World War II in Japan and the United States
Hoaglund, Linda: Stubborn Legacies of War: Japanese Devils in Sarajevo
Kingston, Jeff: Nanjing’s Massacre Memorial: Renovating War Memory in Nanjing and Tokyo
McNeill, David: A Foot Soldier in the War Against Forgetting Japanese Wartime Atrocities
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa: Who is Responsible? The Yomiuri Project and the Enduring Legacy of the Asia-Pacific War
Nakazawa, Keiji: Barefoot Gen, the Atomic Bomb and I: The Hiroshima Legacy
Napier, Susan J.: World War II as Trauma, Memory and Fantasy in Japanese Animation
Nishino, Rumiko: The Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace: Its Role in Public Education
Nishioka, Hideko: 'As Japanese, we wish to live as respectable human beings': Orphans of Japan's China war
Orr, James: A 1942 Declaration for Greater East Asian Co-operation
Penney, Matthew: "The Most Crucial Education": Saotome Katsumoto and Japanese Anti-War Thought
Sakamoto, Rumi: “Will you go to war? Or will you stop being Japanese?” Nationalism and History in Kobayashi Yoshinori’s Sensoron
Seaton, Philip: Family, Friends and Furusato: “Home” in the Formation of Japanese War Memories
Selden, Mark: "A Forgotten Holocaust: US Bombing Strategy, the Destruction of Japanese Cities and the American Way of War from World War II to Iraq"
Seraphim, Franziska: People’s Diplomacy: The Japan-China Friendship Association and Critical War Memory in the 1950s
Takahashi, Tetsuya: The National Politics of the Yasukuni Shrine
Takenaka, Akiko: Enshrinement Politics: War Dead and War Criminals at Yasukuni Shrine
Takeyama, Michio/ Minear, Richard: "The Trial of Mr. Hyde" and Victors’ Justice
Tanaka, Nobumasa: Desecration of the Dead: Bereaved Okinawan Families Sue Yasukuni to End Relatives' Enshrinement
Tanaka, Yuki: Japan’s Kamikaze Pilots and Contemporary Suicide Bombers: War and Terror
Underwood, William: Names, Bones and Unpaid Wages (1): Reparations for Korean Forced Labor in Japan
Wakamiya Yoshibumi, War-bereaved Families' Dilemma: thoughts on Japan's war
Yonetani, Julia: Does the US Need a New Marine Air Station on Okinawa? Voices of Resistance
Yoshida, Takashi: Revising the Past, Complicating the Future: The Yushukan War Museum in Modern Japanese History
Yoshizawa Tatsuhiko: The Manchurian Incident, the League of Nations and the Origins of the Pacific War. What the Geneva archives reveal
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