Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia

Taylor & Francis

Imagining Japan in Post-war East AsiaIdentity Politics, Schooling and Popular Culture\nAuthor(s): Paul Morris, Naoko Shimazu, Edward Vickers\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138120945, 978-1138120945\nSynopsis\nIn the decades since her defeat in the Second World War, Japan has continued to loom large in the national imagination of many of her East Asian neighbours. While for many, Japan still conjures up images of rampant military brutality, at different times and in different communities, alternative images of the Japanese Other have vied for predominance in ways that remain poorly understood, not least within Japan itself.\n\nImagining Japan in Postwar East Asia analyses the portrayal of Japan in the societies of East and Southeast Asia, and asks how and why this has changed in recent decades, and what these changing images of Japan reveal about the ways in which these societies construct their own identities.