Asia and Postwar Japan: Deimperialization, Civic Activism, and National Identity Avenell Simon
Asia and Postwar Japan: Deimperialization, Civic Activism, and National Identity Avenell Simon War, defeat, and the collapse of empire in 1945 touched every aspect of postwar Japanese society,…
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Asia and Postwar Japan: Deimperialization, Civic Activism, and National Identity Avenell Simon
War, defeat, and the collapse of empire in 1945 touched every aspect of postwar Japanese society, profoundly shaping how the Japanese would reconstruct national identity and reengage with the peoples of Asia. Obscured in the shadows of a resurgent postwar Japan lurked a postimperial specter whose haunting presence both complicated and confounded the spiritual rehabilitation of the nation.Asia and Postwar Japan examines Japanese deimperialization from 1945 until the early twenty-first century. While "America" offered a vision of re-genesis after cataclysmic ruin, "Asia" exposed the traumata of perpetration and the torment of ethnic responsibility.
It focuses on the thought and activism of progressive activists and intellectuals as they struggled to overcome rigid preconceptions about "Asia," as they grappled with the implications of postimperial responsibility, and as they