Title: War Memory Writing in Oshiro Tatsuhiro’s Novels

Abstract: The writing of the war memory in the collection Futenmayo and the novel Cocktail Party by Oshiro Tatsuhiro can be regarded as a true portrayal of a side of the post-war Okinawa spiritual history. The excessive quantification of the dead in Japan triggered a rethink of war memory, and Oshiro was devoted to writing the “plural of memory of the other” to awaken personal memory. However, the personal memory of local Japanese often leads to the cognitive deviation due to the consciousness of “no responsibility,” while Okinawans experience memory confusion stemming from repression during the transformation from war experience to memory. It was in the crisis presented by personal memory and collective memory in the 1990s that post-war mateial carriers such as monuments gradually changed from the carriers of war memory to the media for memory war, reflecting the attack and defense in the historical cognitive discourse between mainland Japan and Okinawa.

Keywords: Oshiro Tatsuhiro, war memory, personal memory, collective memory, historical knowledge

Author: Yufan Xin, Ph.D. Candidate, College of Liberal Arts, Journalism and Communication, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong, China.

DOI: 10.19967/j.cnki.flc.2025.02.012