JICPAS issues an English-language magazine "Review of Japanese Culture and Society" offering an international analysis of Japanese people and culture. This magazine is published with a view to enhance international recognition of Japanese culture and its society as well as to stimulate mutual understanding and study the methods of cultural theory.

Introduction

Tani Toru i

Part One
The Violence Deeply Rooted in Society

Imamura Hitoshi 1

The Textualization of Violence in a Global World: Gendered Citizenship and Discourses of Protection

Minoo Moallem 9

Walter Benjamin, Remembrance, and the First World War

Martin Jay 18

Part Two
The Logic of Apologizing for War Crimes "as a Japanese"

Bessho Yoshimi 31

Nazi Holocaust and Atomic Holocaust: Transforming Spiritual Crisis into an Ideology of Humanity

Fujinaga Shigeru 43

Issues surrounding the Wartime "Comfort Women"

Hayashi Yoko 54

The Base and the Military: Structural Violence against Women

Takazato Suzuyo 66

Violence and Communication in the History and Context of Minamata Disease

Maruyama Tokuji 79

Fiction:
Dear Friend

Hayashi Kyoko 100