Japan in the Asia-Pacific War years is usually remembered for economic deprivation, political repression, and cultural barrenness.
In this cultural history, we are introduced to five symbolic figures: the thrill-seekin.
Benjamin Uchiyama argues that although the war created the opportunity for the state to expand its control over society and mass culture, it also fractured Japanese people\'s sense of identity, spilling out through a cultural framework which is best understood as \'Carnival war\'.
Japan in the Asia-Pacific War years is usually remembered for economic deprivation, political repression, and cultural barrenness