Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. A Note on Transliteration XIII
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. EMPIRE: Occupied Territories
7. 1. Korea the Colony and the Poet Sowol 45
8. 2. Writing the Colonial Self: Yang Kui's Texts of Resistance and National Identity 67
9. 3. The Development of Official Art Exhibitions in Taiwan during the Japanese Occupation 92
10. 4. Artistic Trends in Korean Painting during the 1930s 121
11. Part 2. CONFLAGRATION: World War II in East Asia and the Pacific
12. 5. The Many Lives of Living Soldiers: Ishikawa Tatsuzo and Japan's War in Asia 149
13. 6. Paris in Nanjing: Kishida Kunio Follows the Troops 176
14. 7. A Painter of the "Holy War": Fujita Tsuguji and the Japanese Military 188
15. 8. Japanese Filmmakers and the Responsibility for War: The Case of Itami Mansaku 212
16. Part 3. AFTERMATH OF TOTAL WAR: Allied-Occupied Japan and Postcolonial Asia
17. 9. The Double Conversion of a Cartoonist: The Case of Katō Etsurō 235
18. 10. To Be or Not To Be: Kabuki and Cultural Politics in Occupied Japan 269
19. 11. Pleading for the Body: Tamura Taijirō's 1947 Korean Comfort Woman Story, Biography of a Prostitute 310
20. 12. From Pearls to Swine: Sakaguchi Ango and the Humanity of Decadence 360
21. Contributors 381
22. Index 385