Cold War Ruins : Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes

In Cold War Ruins Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have generated what she calls a "transborder redress culture." A product of failed post-World War II transitional justice that left many colonial legacies intact, this culture both contests and reiterates the complex transwar and transpacific entanglements that have sustained the Cold War unredressability and illegibility of certain violences. By linking justice to the effects of American geopolitical hegemony, and by deploying a conjunctive cultural critique—of "comfort women" redress efforts, state-sponsored apologies and amnesties, Asian American involvement in redress cases, the ongoing effects of the U.S. occupation of Japan and Okinawa, Japanese atrocities in China, and battles over WWII memories—Yoneyama helps illuminate how redress culture across Asia and the Pacific has the potential to bring powerful new and challenging perspectives on American exceptionalism, militarized security, justice, sovereignty, forgiveness, and decolonization. Lisa Yoneyama is Professor of East Asian Studies and Women & Gender Studies at the University of Toronto, the coeditor of Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s), also published by Duke University Press, and the author of Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory. Lisa Yoneyama Argues That The Efforts Intensifying Since The 1990s To Bring Justice To The Victims Of Japanese Military And Colonial Violence Have Generated What She Calls A Transborder Redress Culture That Has The Potential To Bring Powerful Challenging Perspectives On American Exceptionalism, Militarized Security, Justice, Sovereignty, Forgiveness, And Decolonization. Introduction : Transpacific Cold War Formations And The Question Of (un)redressability -- Liminal Justice : Okinawa -- Liberation Under Siege : Japanese Women -- Sovereignty, Apology, Forgiveness : Revisionisms -- Contagious Justice : Asian/america -- Complicit Amnesia : For Transformative Knowledge. Lisa Yoneyama. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Title Page......Page 2 Copyright......Page 3 Contents......Page 4 Preface......Page 5 Introduction: Transpacific Cold War Formations and the Question of (Un)Redressability......Page 11 Part I: Space of Occupation......Page 54 Chapter 1: Liminal Justice: Okinawa......Page 55 Chapter 2: Liberation under Siege: Japanese Women......Page 97 Part II: Transnational Memory Borders......Page 127 Chapter 3: Sovereignty, Apology, Forgiveness: Revisionisms......Page 128 Chapter 4: Contagious Justice: Asian/America......Page 168 Chapter 5: Complicit Amnesia: For Transformative Knowledge......Page 200 Epilogue......Page 227 Acknowledgments......Page 239 Notes......Page 249 Bibliography......Page 295 Index......Page 313 Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Transpacific Cold War Formations and the Question of (Un)Redressability -- Part I: Space of Occupation -- Chapter 1. Liminal Justice: Okinawa -- Chapter 2. Liberation under Siege: Japanese Women -- Part II: Transnational Memory Borders -- Chapter 3. Sovereignty, Apology, Forgiveness: Revisionisms -- Chapter 4. Contagious Justice: Asian/America -- Chapter 5. Complicit Amnesia: For Transformative Knowledge -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P