01680nam a2200217Ia 4500 CTU_227743 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 305.8952 I.18 Iddittie, Junesay When two cultures meet : Sketches of postwar Japan, 1945-1955 Junesay Iddittie Tokyo Kenkyusha 1955 The immediate post-war years in Japan are frequently referred to as the yakeato jidai or 'burned-out ruins period.' Photographs from this time show a panorama of skeletal buildings amidst piles of rubble. Ragamuffin children, many of them orphans, play barefoot while adults scavenge among the ruins for anything that might be bartered or put to use: tools, clothing, pots, and most importantly, food. An enormous number of city dwellers had lost everything in the war. Indeed, as historian Igarashi Yoshikuni points out, for many survivors, their bodies were the only things that they had managed to preserve from the air raids.[1] With the collapse of the militarist regime there was a widespread rejection of the 'spiritual' wartime ideology that had been used to justify privation and self sacrifice. Instead, the needs of the body or the 'flesh' (nikutai) played much on people's minds, giving rise to a popular literary genre, 'literature of the flesh' (nikutai bungaku), that graphically depicted the physical needs of embodied existence. Nhật Bản,Japan Nền văn minh,Ảnh hưởng của Mỹ,Civilization,American influences dqhieu Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ