ABSTRACT
As the Popular Memory Group has argued, private memories and public war narratives are inextricably linked. The concept of the public-private relationship can also be reworked and applied to discussion of how war narratives have related to wider non-war narratives within postwar Japanese society. In other words: ‘War memories and cultural narratives of war cannot be readily unscrambled from the effects of wider cultural, historical and political discourses. It is often these that supply the terms by which war history is thought through.’
