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.