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Mizuki Haya
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The horrible memories of the lost war have been gradually but steadily going out of our mind since the Treaty of Peace in 1952. In 1947, immediately after the war, Fumiko Hayashi published "Uzushio," a story about a war widow, as if to resist such oblivion. While the story is an important testimony to what had happened in wartime, it also implicitly criticizes the irresponsible postwar arrangements by the Japanese government. For evasion from hard realities left by the war is ominously predicted in the heroine's remarriage at the end of the story.
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Chisa Amano
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The years of the demobilization of the Japanese army after World War II marked a chaotic period in history when experiences, wartime and postwar, national and transnational, contradictorily coexisted. But soon the turbulent period had begun to be historically reconstructed through discourses in literature and the mass media. For example, in Yaso Saijo's lyrics of soldiers retuning home "Ah-chichi-kaeru, otto-kaeru," or in the articles of demobilized soldiers in the magazine Shufu-no-tomo, the fractured conditions of the society were contained into the melodrama of family reunions which reflected a desire to rebuild a new unified regime. Such discursively processed memories were inverted responses to the critical situations, both domestic and foreign, that would lead to the Korean War.
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Kazuya Matsumoto
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Hikari-goke has been usually interpreted as a symbolic story that reflects some unchangeable truth. Instead of reading it in such an essentialist way, here I will put it back into the historical context to find its more actual meaning. As the narrative strategy in the travelogue part shows, the story is a sort of meta-fiction which radically transgresses literary conventions. Such transgression both in content and in form enables the author to represent the scandal of cannibalism from more than a single viewpoint. Defining the story this way, I will reconsider its historical aspect.
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Yuha Paku
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In his Nippon-sanmon-opera (1959), Ken Kaikei compares Korean people in Japan to the "Apache" and sees them as if they were lawless savages. Such a representation of the Korean comes from the author's desire to distinguish between the prewar and the postwar periods precisely in order to forget what caused the "Apache" to be in his country. Sakyo Komatsu is fully aware of continuity between the two periods. But, in Nippon-Apache-zoku (1964), driven by the same strong desire of oblivion, he also represents the Korean as aliens who invade and destroy the country. Unlike those Japanese writers, Sogiru Yan in Yoru-wo-kakete (1994) puts stress on the persistent existence of prewar ideologies in postwar Japan. His argument, however, is largely constructed on his own interpretation or representation of postwar society as a writer of Korean stock. In this sense, even he can't give any practical answer to the unsolved issues of the past.
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Tomoyuki Kidono
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What is the "postwar space"? The notion of "postwar" is vaguely associated with something new after the disappearance of old values. On the other hand, the "space" implies an arena for the historical and political experiences of the country. Here, critically re-examining the current method of analysis of discourses, I will consider what the two "postwar" writers, Yukio Mishima and Kenji Nakagami, thought of their age and how they worked in it.
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Ikuyo Hanazaki
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In January, 1982, in response to the acceleration of nuclear armaments during the Cold War, a group of writers made a statement called the "Declaration by the Writers Concerned about the Crisis of Nuclear War." Six months later, it gathered 562 subscriptions, but there were some opinions critical not of the anti-nuclear movement but of the statement itself. ShOhei Ooka subscribed to it but neither gave his answer to the questionnaire not attended the meetings. In spite of his anti-nuclear attitude, he remained silent about it even in his works. Ooka wrote existentialist novels about the last war with an extensive and conscientious use of data. So probably he thought the highly complicated, veiled, and inhuman system of nuclear armaments to be far beyond his style of writing.
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Hidenori Jinno
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