Shaped by Conflict: Japanese Literature After World War II

A Japanese edition of Ningen shikkaku (No Longer Human) by Dazai Osamu. (© Shinchōsha)

A Japanese edition of Inugamike no ichizoku (The Inugami Curse) by Yokomizo Seishi. (© Kadokawa)

A Japanese edition of Nobi (Fires on the Plain) by Ōoka Shōhei. (© Shinchōsha)

A Japanese edition of Nijūshi no hitomi (Twenty-Four Eyes) by Tsuboi Sakae. (© Iwanami Shoten)

A Japanese edition of Kuroi ame (Black Rain) by Ibuse Masuji. (© Shinchōsha)

The Genbaku (A-Bomb) Dome in Hiroshima in 1945. (© Jiji)

A Japanese edition of Rakujitsu moyu (War Criminal: The Life and Death of Hirota Koki) by Shiroyama Saburō. (© Shinchōsha)