Introduction Philip A. Seaton Part I: Local war memories in Hokkaido 1. A theory of local war memories Philip A. Seaton 2. Grand narratives of empire and development Philip A. Seaton 3. Narratives of war in the Hokkaido media Philip A. Seaton Part II: Local history, local activism 4. There was a raid in Sapporo, too: unearthing the history of air raids in Hokkaido Tsuneko Hayashi (translated by Philip A. Seaton) 5. Local Hokkaido and national memories of war horses Aaron Skabelund 6. Unearthing the history of minshū in Hokkaido: the case study of the Okhotsk People’s History Workshop Hiroshi Oda 7. Unearthing takobeya labour in Hokkaido Yohei Achira (translated by Philip A. Seaton) Part III: Memories in militarized Hokkaido 8. Commemorating the war dead at Hokkaido Gokoku Shrine Philip A. Seaton 9. War memory, local history, gender: self-representation in exhibitions of the Ground Self-Defense Force André Hertrich 10. Building snow statues, building communities: the SDF and Hokkaido during the early Cold War decades Aaron Skabelund Epilogue Philip A. Seaton
Biography
Philip A. Seaton is a Professor in the International Student Center at Hokkaido University, Japan, where he is the convenor of the Modern Japanese Studies Program. He is the author of Japan’s Contested War Memories (Routledge, 2007), Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border (Routledge, 2015, co-edited with Svetlana Paichadze) and numerous articles on war and memory in Japan.
"Without any doubt, the volume illuminates World War II memories in Hokkaido. It exposes readers to Hokkaido’s relatively unknown experiences of the war and, in the postwar period, to its economic dependence on SDF bases, local peace activism, progressive voices in the region, local media coverage, and Hokkaido museum exhibits."
Takashi Yoshida, Western Michigan University, The Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 43, No. 2, Summer 2017
