This special issue introduces thirteen original essays, each offering unique perspectives and re-examinations of Asia-Pacific War memories. The special issue’s broad geographical scope stretches the Asia-Pacific region. Essays’ diverse topics and themes highlight previously unexplored avenues and voices, from war cemeteries in Malaysia, to Japanese veterans’ complicated war narratives, and to war brides in New Zealand. Each explores a different facet of how war memories shaped and navigated a shifting postwar terrain and complex geopolitics. Toward this end, the special issue is woven around three broad themes in particular: sites of mourning, personal narratives, and commemoration and memorialization.
Introduction
1. Justin Aukema, Daniel Milne, Mahon Murphy, and Ryōta Nishino – Re-examining Asia-Pacific War Memories: Grief, Narratives, and Memorials
Part I Sites of Mourning
2. Collin Rusneac – Building Transnational Memories at Japanese War and Colonial Cemeteries
3. Alison Starr – Forever Alongside: War Cemeteries as Sites of Enemy Reconciliation
4. Beatrice Trefalt – Finding the remains of the dead: photographs from a Japanese mission to New Guinea, 1969-1970
Part II Personal Narratives
5. Justin Aukema – A Hero’s Defeat: Modernization Theory and Japanese Veterans’ Asia-Pacific “War Tales”
6. Ryōta Nishino – War, Trauma, and Humanity in a Japanese Veteran’s New Guinea War Memoir: Ogawa Masatsugu’s “Island of Death” (1969)
7. Matthew Allen – Robots, Kamikaze and War Memory: How a Children’s Comic can Help us Rethink Postmemory in Postwar Japan
Part III Commemoration and Memorialization
8. Elena Kolesova and Mutsumi Kanazawa – Ambivalence of Identity: Stories of the Japanese War Brides in New Zealand
9. Daniel Milne and David Moreton – Remembering and Forgetting the War Dead at Ryōzen Kannon: A Site of Entangled and Transnational War Memories
10. Arnel Joven – Remembering Camp O’Donnell: From Shared Memories to Public History in the Philippines
11. Mo Tian – The Legacy of the Second Sino-Japanese War in the People’s Republic of China: Mapping the Official Discourses of Memory
Conclusion
12. Mahon Murphy – Entangled Memories of Two World Wars
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