The Victim as Hero: Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan 9780824865153

This is the first systematic, historical inquiry into the emergence of "victim consciousness" (higaisha ishiki

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Victims, Victimizers, And Mythology
Chapter 2. Leaders And Victims Personal War Responsibility During The Occupation
Chapter 3. Hiroshima And Yuiitsu No Hibakukoku Atomic Victimhood In The Antinuclear Peace Movement
Chapter 4. Educating A Peace-Loving People Narratives Of War In Postwar Textbooks
Chapter 5. “Sentimental Humanism” The Victim In Novels And Film
Chapter 6. Compensating Victims The Politics Of Victimhood
Chapter 7. Beyond The Postwar
Appendix 1. The Stockholm Appeal
Appendix 2. Suginami Ward’S Petition To Ban The Hydrogen Bomb
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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