Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War

Name: Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

When we look in detail at the various peripheral groups of disenfranchised people emerging from the aftermath of the Asia\u2013Pacific War the list is startling: Koreans in Japan (migrants or forced labourers), Burakumin, Hibakusha, Okinawans, Asian minorities, comfort women and many others. Many of these groups have been discussed in a large corpus of what we may call \u2018disenfranchised literature\u2019, and the research presented in this book intends to add an additional and particularly controversial example to the long list of the voice- and powerless. The presence of members of what is known as the yakeato sedai or the generation of people who experienced the fire-bombings of the Asia\u2013Pacific War is conspicuous in all areas of contemporary Japan. From literature to the visual arts, from music to theatre, from architecture to politics, their influence and in many cases guiding principles is evident everywhere and in many cases forms the keystone of modern Japanese society.