Narrating Perpetrator Trauma and Moral Injury: Defeated Soldiers of Japan’s Asia-Pacific War
Published online on August 05, 2026
Abstract
Cultural Sociology, Ahead of Print.
This article asks how the cultural trauma of war is actively constructed – not only through elite carriers and institutional arenas, but through the moral labor of ordinary individuals “from below.” Drawing on a major archive of war testimonies, I examine ...
This article asks how the cultural trauma of war is actively constructed – not only through elite carriers and institutional arenas, but through the moral labor of ordinary individuals “from below.” Drawing on a major archive of war testimonies, I examine ...