Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One Catastrophe, Memory, and Narrative: Teaching Japanese and Jewish Responses to Twentieth-Century Atrocity -- Chapter Two Murakami Haruki and the War Inside -- Chapter Three To Make Gods and Demons Weep: Witnessing the Sublime in "Death in Midsummer" and "Patriotism" -- Chapter Four Writing the Traumatized Self: Tenkō in the Literature of Shiina Rinzō -- Chapter Five Okuizumi Hikaru and the Mystery of War Memory -- Chapter Six Victimization and "Response-ability": Remembering, Representing, and Working Through Trauma in Grave of the Fireflies -- Chapter Seven Fractious Memories in Medoruma Shun's Tales of War -- Chapter Eight Framing the Ruins: The Documentary Photographs of Yamahata Yōsuke (Nagasaki, August 10, 1945) -- Chapter Nine Responsibility and Japanese Literature of the Atomic Bomb -- Chapter Ten Of Brutality and Betrayal: Youthful Fiction and the Legacy of the Asia Pacific War -- Chapter Eleven Contesting Traumatic War Narratives: Space Battleship Yamato and Mobile Suit Gundam -- Index.