In Japan of the 1990s, fictional alternate histories-called kaku-senki-were popular, while at the same time, historical revisionism represented by the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform (Atarashii Rekishi Kyokasho o Tsukuru Kai) gained power. In their desire to seek for on appropriate history, how was fiction involved? How did fiction provide resistance? I will survey a use of "history" in the contemporary novel, and examine AJAPA! (1997) by YAHAGI Toshihiko.
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