| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 246 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
War, memory, and culture |
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War, memory, and culture.
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| Contents |
Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Backstory -- Part 1. Hiroshima -- 1. The Tattered Kimono -- 2. Watanabe-san and the Mound -- 3. Scars and the Impersonal Nature of War -- Part 2. Nagasaki -- 4. Apocalypse -- 5. Sacred Images, Two Mothers -- 6. Missionaries, Banishment, and Resurrection -- 7. Searching for the Kimono-Draped Nursing Mother and Child -- 8. Searching for the Rice Ball Boy and His Mother -- 9. Hibaku no Maria -- Part 3. Firebombed Cities -- 10. Tokyo -- 11. Tokushima -- 12. Fukuoka -- Part 4. Holocausts -- 13. Anne Frank in Japan -- 14. The Holocaust of Hiroshima -- 15. A Japanese Letter from Auschwitz -- Part 5. Prisoners Of Memory -- 16. The Gulag POW -- 17. Cloth Man -- Part 6. War Crimes, Repentance, And Apologies -- 18. Atrocities and Dead Souls -- 19. Repentance and Apology: The War Criminal's Son -- 20. Repentance and Apology: The Wartime Emperor's Son -- Part 7. Flashbacks -- 21. Tsunami: Flattened Landscapes -- 22. Meltdown: Radiation Refugees -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index |
| Summary |
"Examines Japan's war generation--Japanese men and women who survived World War Two and rebuilt their lives, into the 21st century, from memories of that conflict. Since John Hersey's Hiroshima--the classic account, published in 1946, of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of that city--very few books have examined the meaning and impact of World War II through the eyes of Japanese men and women who survived that conflict. Tattered Kimonos in Japan does just that: It is an intimate journey into contemporary Japan from the perspective of the generation of Japanese soldiers and civilians who survived World War II, by a writer whose American father and Japanese father-in-law fought on opposite sides of the conflict. The author, a former NPR senior editor, is Jewish, and he approaches the subject with the sensibilities of having grown up in a community of Holocaust survivors. Mindful of the power of victimhood, memory, and shared suffering, he travels across Japan, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki, meeting a compelling group of men and women whose lives, even now, are defined by the trauma of war, and by lingering questions of responsibility and repentance for Japan's wartime aggression. The image of a tattered kimono from Hiroshima is the thread that drives the narrative arc of this emotional story about a writer's encounter with history, inside the Japan of his father's generation, on the other side of his father's war. This is a book about history with elements of family memoir. It offers a fresh and truly unique perspective for readers interested in World War II, Japan, or Judaica; readers seeking cross-cultural journeys; and readers intrigued by Japanese culture, particularly the kimono."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed January 31, 2024) |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- Personal narratives
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi -- Personal narratives
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese -- Public opinion
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- History -- 1945- -- Anecdotes.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069512
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780817394769 |
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0817394761 |
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