8월 15일 패전과 여성, 여성문학자 = Japan`s Defeat on August 15th and It`s Women and Literary Women

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper examines the overturning of ideas and values after Japan`s defeat in World War II on August 15, 1945, through the discourses and novels of the women and literary women of Japan. First of all, with respect to Japan`s defeat in the war, this paper discusses the fact that the Japanese expressions “the end of the war” and “the armistice” attempt to conceal the truth of Japan`s outright “defeat” in its war of aggression. Japan`s defeat in the war meant the total collapse of the ideas and values which had hitherto sustained Japanese society. And the Emperor of Japan played a key role in enabling the Japanese to accept such an overturning of ideas and values without much conflict. Secondly, the end of the war as spoken of by the Japanese entailed a sense of liberation from imminent death and the joy of the restoration of day-to-day life, beyond the grief and trauma of war, in the eyes of the women and literary women of Japan. Thirdly, it is evident that the Japanese soldiers returning from the war were depicted as inferior losers, as they were neither victors nor those who had honorably died in war, which led to their being branded as criminals and sex offenders in post-war Japanese society. Fourthly, with Japan`s defeat in war, the arrival of US occupation forces brought about wild rumors of US soldiers sexually assaulting Japanese women. However, one can see that the pre-war images of the US and US soldiers as “cruel monsters” slowly gave way to a more positive image of them as gentle, rational, and romantic human beings.

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