Orr, James Joseph,

The victim as hero : ideologies of peace and national identity in postwar Japan / James J. Orr. - viii, 271 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-256) and index.

Victims, victimizers, and mythology -- Leaders and victims: personal war responsibility during the occupation -- Hiroshima and Yuiitsu no hibakukoku: atomic victimhood in the antinuclear peace movement -- Educating a peace-loving people: narratives of war in postwar textbooks -- "Sentimental humanism": the victim in novels and film -- Compensating victims: the politics of victimhood -- Beyond postwar.

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Atomic bomb victims--Japan--Hiroshima-shi
Atomic bomb victims--Japan--Nagasaki-shi
Atomic bomb--Psychological aspects.--Japan


Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945
Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945
Japan--Intellectual life--1945-

D767.25.H6 / O77 2001

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