Abstract
This article practices autoethnography on the trauma of both the children's and the grandchildren's generations of Japanese soldiers, focusing on both movements of me and "talk meeting of the families who lived with returned Japanese soldiers" established in Japan. Studies and social acknowledge on the trauma of returned Japanese soldiers recently proceed. This article not only represents the traumatic influence on both the second and the third generations of returned soldiers through the autoethnographic descriptions on me and Kuroi Akio, but also articulates to recent studies on the complex trauma and intergenerational trauma transmission. Returned Japanese soldiers' agony has neither be acknowledged nor be cured in post-war Japan and it further brings next generation negative and violent influences. The activities of "talk meeting of the families" and the power to drive those activities also question the responsibility of the Japanese state, which had concealed the fact of returned soldiers' PTSD. Those movements do not exclude next generation's participation and aim to achieve "reconciliation" in future including encounters with Chinese victims. Autoethnography clearly reveals that the personal experience articulates to the society and the culture and it is also a discursive practice that intervenes from periphery to center, which innovates on past style of ethnography as an "objective" writing and connects past and future.
