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The Victim as Hero: Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan
James J. Orr
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| #1259444 in Books | University of Hawaii Press | 2001-04-01 | 2001-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.64 x5.98l,.82 | File type: PDF | 280 pages | ||0 of 17 people found the following review helpful.| Completely uninteresting|By bat12|Boring is about the only way to describe this book. This is a definite pass. Would not recommend this book to anyone. Basically the book is about how the Japanese national identity evolved from being aggressors into being viewed as victims of the Second World War. With the occupation and retaining of the Emperor the U.S. helped shape this idea||"James Orr provides the first systematic, historical inquiry into the emergence of the concept of victimhood in postwar Japan. He describes vividly how the notion of victimhood has been institutionalized through the use of elite political rhetoric, school text
This is the first systematic, historical inquiry into the emergence of "victim consciousness" (higaisha ishiki) as an essential component of Japanese pacifist national identity after World War II. In his meticulously crafted narrative and analysis, the author reveals how postwar Japanese elites and American occupying authorities collaborated to structure the parameters of remembrance of the war, including the notion that the emperor and his people had been betraye...
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