Introduction / David C. Stahl & Mark B. Williams
Catastrophe, memory, and narrative : teaching Japanese and Jewish responses to twentieth-century atrocity / Alan Tansman
Murakami Haruki and the war inside / Jay Rubin
To make gods and demons weep : witnessing the sublime in 'Death in Midsummer' and 'Patriotism' / Dennis Washburn
Writing the traumatized self : Tenkåo in the literature of Shiina Rinzåo / Mark Williams
Okuizumi Hikaru and the mystery of war memory / Angela Yiu
Victimization and 'response-ability' : remembering, representing, and working through trauma in Grave of the fireflies / David C. Stahl
Fractious memories in Medoruma Shun's Tales of war / Davinder L. Bhowmik
Framing the ruins : the documentary photographs of Yamahata Yåosuke (Nagasaki, August 10, 1945) / Mark Silver
Responsibility and Japanese literature of the atomic bomb / Karen Thornber
Of brutality and betrayal : youthful fiction and the legacy of the Asia Pacific War / Christine E. Wiley
Contesting traumatic war narratives : Space Battleship Yamato and Mobile Suit Gundam / William Ashbaugh.