Perilous Memories

"Perilous Memories is a major statement in current discussions concerned with assessing the problematic relationship of history and memory. The authors gathered in this volume edited by T. Fujitani, Geoffrey White, and Lisa Yoneyama forcefully rescue the memories of other wars and genocides in the arena of Asia-Pacific to remind us of the dangerous but necessary task of the present to actualize the past in order to remember the forgotten yet unforgettable. With this volume we have an incomparable guide to what Walter Benjamin once described as the 'copernican turn to remembrance.'"-Harry Harootunian, New York University "This excellent interdisciplinary collection of essays gives diverse and heterogeneous voice to many ordinary people who suffered in the Asian wars that began in 1931-wars that, for many of these same people, never really ended. At every turn, Perilous Memories counterpoints the extraordinary elites who have dominated historical memory with the recuperated experience of their victims. This book is a major contribution to what the authors call 'critical war remembering.'"-Bruce Cumings, author of Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century "Unsettling official national accounts with memories of war from Okinawa, Guam, and Taiwan, of the Nanjing massacre, occupied Singapore, and the Hiroshima bombing-PERILOUS MEMORIES provokes a haunting dialectic between familiar history and endangered memories."-Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego

T. Fujitani is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego and author of Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. Geoffrey M. White is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i, Senior Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu, and author of Identity Through History: Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society. Lisa Yoneyama is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Japanese Studies at University of California, San Diego and author of Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory.

Acknowledgments vii Introduction / T. Fujitani, Geoffrey M. White, and Lisa Yoneyama 1 1. Memory Fragments, Memory Images Absent Images of Memory: Remembering and Reenacting the Japanese Internment / Marita Sturken 33 The Malleable and the Contested: The Nanjing Massacre in Postwar China and Japan / Daqing Yang 50 Memories of War and Okinawa / Ishihara Masaie 87 Images of Islanders in Pacific War Photographs / Lamont Lindstrom 107 Imagery and War in Japan: 1995 / Morio Watanabe 129 2. Politics and Poetics of Liberation Deliberating "Liberation Day": Identity, History, Memory, and War in Guam / Vicente M. Diaz 155 Imperial Army Betrayed / Chen Yingzhen 181 Korean "Imperial Soldiers": Remembering Colonialism and Crimes against Allied POWs / Utsumi Aiko 199 Memory Suppression and Memory Production: The Japanese Occupation of Singapore / Diana Wong 218 Go For Broke, the Movie, Japanese American Soldiers in U.S. National, Military, and Racial Discourses / T. Fujitani 239 Moving History: The Pearl Harbor Film(s) / Geoffrey M. White 267 3. Atonement, Healing, and Unexpected Alliances "Trapped in History" on the Way to Utopia: East Asia's "Great War" Fifty Years Later / Arif Dirlik 299 For Transformative Knowledge and Postnationalist Public Spheres: The Smithsonian Enola Gay Controversy / Lisa Yoneyama 323 "Frantic to Join . . . the Japanese Army": Black Soldiers and Civilians Confront the Asia Pacific War / George Lipsitz 347 Colonialism and Atom Bombs: About Survivors of Hiroshima Living in Korea / Toyonaga Keisaburo 378 The Politics of War Memories toward Healing / Chungmoo Choi 395 Bibliography 411 Filmography 435 Index 437 Contributors 461