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Within Japan’s contested memories of the Asia-Pacific War (1937-45), the depiction of soldiers, sailors and pilots in leading roles within cinematic/televisual representations of the war usually falls into one of three main patterns: ‘military heroes’ participating in a noble (albeit losing) war; ‘g...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-617242024-03-27T14:14:38Z Chapter 11 The Pathos of the Soldier-Athlete in Japanese Memories of the Asia-Pacific War Seaton, Philip Japan; cinema; soldier-athlete; victim; representation; sport thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history Within Japan’s contested memories of the Asia-Pacific War (1937-45), the depiction of soldiers, sailors and pilots in leading roles within cinematic/televisual representations of the war usually falls into one of three main patterns: ‘military heroes’ participating in a noble (albeit losing) war; ‘good Japanese’ facing down villainous militarists; and ‘victim-heroes’ suffering amidst the uncontrollable carnage of war. A recurrent trope, particularly within the representation of ‘victim-heroes’, is a focus on the soldier’s life and/or talents away from the military: the soldier as artist, scholar, lover, and athlete. Through a short history of sport in wartime Japan and six case studies of soldier-athletes – two with ‘inconvenient life histories’, two with ‘usable life histories’, and two (semi-)fictionalized characters – this chapter establishes how sport is used to humanize soldier characters and thereby pull the overall narrative of the film towards a pacifist message of the inhumanity of and suffering during war. 2023-03-16T13:12:54Z 2023-03-16T13:12:54Z 2023 chapter 9781032125978 9781032125985 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61724 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781003225355_10.4324_9781003225355-15.pdf Taylor & Francis Sport and the Pursuit of War and Peace from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Routledge 10.4324/9781003225355-15 10.4324/9781003225355-15 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 946af1ea-13a8-4286-9c8d-99d0b271ef48 9781032125978 9781032125985 Routledge 21 open access
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