War and militarism in modern Japan issues of history and identity (Global Oriental, 2009)
"Published to mark the distinguished academic career of ben-Ami Shillony, who retired from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2006"--Dust jacket. - "This volume is a fruit of 'The International Conference on Japan in Honour of Professor Ben-Ami Shillony', which took place at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, between 29 April and 2 May 2007"--P. [iv]
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-236) and index
Introduction - Japan's tug of war after the Russo-Japanese War - Facing a dilemma : Japan's Jewish policy in the late 1930s - Ethnicity and gender in the wartime Japanese revue theatre - 'The terrible weapon of the gravely injured' : Mishima Yukio's literature and the war - Reenacting a failed revolution : the February 26 Incident in theatre and film, 1960-1980 - Imperial Japan and its POWs : the dilemma of humaneness and national identity - Japan's defeat in the Second World War : the cultural dimension - Jewish scientists, Jewish ethics and the making of the atomic bomb - The memory of the Second World War and the essence of 'New Japan' : the parliamentary debate over Japan's democratic constitution - Lives divided in the Second World War : the individual and the master narrative of war - Sadako Sasaki and Anne Frank : myths in Japanese and Israeli memory of the Second World War - Death and the Japanese Self-Defence Forces : anticipation, deployment and cultural scripts - A fragile balance between 'normalization' and the revival of nationalistic sentiments - The effect of Japanese colonial brutality on shaping Korean identity : an analysis of a prison turned memorial site in Seoul - Guy Podoler -- - Ian Nish -- - Naoki Maruyama -- - Jennifer Robertson -- - Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit -- - David G. Goodman -- - Rotem Kowner -- - Mark Peattie -- - Meron Medzini -- - Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti -- - Harumi Befu -- - Roni Sarig -- - Eyal Ben-Ari -- - Mariko Tsujita -- - Guy Podoler