Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Conventions xvii
6. Introduction: Akamatsu Toshiko, Microhistory, and the Art of Persistence in Transwar Japan 1
7. 1. From “Northern Gate” to “Southern Advance”: Envisioning the North-South Expansion of Colonial Japan 11
8. 2. Creating “Culture for Little Countrymen”: The Total Mobilization of Toshi’s Micronesian Experience 50
9. 3. Red Shift: Pre-1945 Visual Culture, Heterochronicity, and Proletarian Eastern Time 86
10. 4. Bare Naked Aesthetics: Postwar Arts and Toshi’s Populist Manifesto 118
11. 5. Art as War Crime: Artistic Wartime Responsibility and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East 156
12. 6. Art as Direct Action: Hiroshima and the Nuclear Panels 191
13. Afterword: Double Time and the Art of Seeing through Empire 226
14. Notes 231
15. Bibliography 279
16. Index 303
17. About the author 315