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Today, 75 years since the end of the Asian-Pacific War, there is a tendency for the concept of “postwar” to be used so routinely as to render it practically meaningless. In a contrary current, meanwhile, conservatives have sought to benefit from the recurring critiques on postwar democracy accompanying the spread of neo-liberalism. This collection of essays presents a fundamental reconsideration of “postwar” following both of these currents through diverse themes—occupation and censorship, Asia and development, memories of war and defeat, sexuality, and biopolitics—addressed from the standpoint of today.