Japan is a nation that faced both healthy and traumatizing transformations during the twentieth century. As the country switched from a militarist state to a more peaceful, democratic state, the nation itself attempted to forget the horrible blow it had received from the atomic bomb blasts. Nevertheless, the memories of what happened still persist. Although Japanese society desired to forget the traumatizing events of the war during postwar re-establishment, cultural productions often times reflected the loss and defeat.
Yoshikuni Igarashi focuses the processes of struggles within postwar Japanese culture into a clear perspective in his book Bodies of Memory. However, the book is not an investigation of the struggles and suffering of
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