7. Reversing the Gaze: The Construction of “Adulthood” in the Wartime Diaries of Japanese Children and Youth

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations and Table vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. PART ONE: Premodern Period
7. 1. Nasty Boys or Obedient Children?: Childhood and Relative Autonomy in Medieval Japanese Monasteries 17
8. 2. Growing Up Manly: Male Samurai Childhood in Late Edo-Era Tosa 41
9. 3. For the Love of Children: Practice, Affect, and Subjectivities in Hirata Atsutane’s Household 60
10. PART TWO: Early Twentieth Century
11. 4. Consumer Consumption for Children: Conceptions of Childhood in the Work of Taishō-Period Designers 83
12. 5. “Children in the Wind”: Reexamining the Golden Age of Childhood Film in Wartime Japan 102
13. 6. Children and the Founding of Manchukuo: The Young Girl Ambassadors as Promoters of Friendship 121
14. PART THREE: Asia-Pacific War
15. 7. Reversing the Gaze: The Construction of “Adulthood” in the Wartime Diaries of Japanese Children and Youth 141
16. 8. Outdoor Play in Wartime Japan 160
17. 9. “ . . . And my heart screams”: Children and the War of Emotions 181
18. PART FOUR: Contemporary Japan
19. 10. From Grade Schooler to Great Star: Childhood Development and the “Golden Age” in the World of Japanese Soccer 205
20. 11. Treatment and Intervention for Children with Developmental Disabilities 225
21. 12. Food, Affect, and Experiments in Care: Constituting a “Household-like” Child Welfare Institution in Japan 243
22. 13. Monju-kun: Children’s Culture as Protest 264
23. Contributors 286
24. Index 291