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Jipangu: Re-imagining Defeat in 21st-century Japan

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Trent Maxey
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Precis: Using Kawaguchi Kaiji's graphic novel Jipangu (2001-2009) as an example, this essay explores a horizon of historical consciousness revealed by alternative histories of the Asia-Pacific War. Alternative histories of the war attempt to remove the stigma of defeat but also betray the extent to which contemporary Japan is unimaginable without the experience of defeat. Jipangu suggests a limit to the alternative pasts imaginable in early-twenty- first-century Japan.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 25 , June 2012 , e2
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