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In the Woods of Memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Medoruma Shun  and
Takuma Sminkey
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Abstract

Medoruma Shun, widely recognized as Okinawa's leading novelist, has published a new novel, translated by Takuma Sminkey as In the Woods of Memory, set in the Battle of Okinawa and on the sixtieth anniversary of the battle. The Asia-Pacific Journal is proud to publish the first chapter of the novel and an introduction to Medoruma's work.

Type
Research Article
Information
Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 15 , Issue 5 , March 2017 , e1
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 2017

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Notes

1 For a critical analysis of Medoruma's work in English, see Kyle Ikeda, Okinawa War Memory: Transgenerational Trauma and the War Fiction of Medoruma Shun (Routledge, 2014). For an analysis of his work in Japanese, see Susan Bouterey, Medoruma Shun no sekai [The World of Medoruma Shun] (Kage Shobo, 2011), and Tomoyuki Suzuki, Me no oku ni tsukitaterareta kotoba no mori [A Harpoon of Language Thrust into the Eye] (Shobunsha, 2013).

2 For Ōshiro's review of Medoruma's novel, see “Kioku e chōsen suru kotoba no chikara” [The Power of Language Confronting the Limits of Memory], Ryūkyū Shinpō, 23 August 2009, page 22. For Koshikawa's review, see Shōsetsu Torippā, Winter 2009, pages 434-6.

3 For Medoruma's discussion of the incident, see Okinawa “sengo” zero nen [Zero Years After the “End” of the Battle of Okinawa] (NHK Press, 2005), page 59.