I’ve been studying this novel for a course which will start in Feburary of this year (Happy 2024 by the way), but have a bit of trouble with connecting the novel to historical examples of revisionism. (It’s a required theme I should address.)
While doing some research, I did learn about what the Japanese did in ww2, and how their actions and the horrors they performed are largely looked over by society as a whole, but dont really know how to connect this to ‘Memory Police’. There has never been any formal apology for all the war crimes and atrocities which happened, and they never really had to pay any reperations either.
(If you want to find out more search ‘The Nanjing Massacre’, but nsfw alert)
This could be completely unrelated too, as Ogawa was somewhat inspired by the Holocaust in various works. If this was the case though, there wouldnt be much historical revisionism as the world is painfully aware of what happened during that time, and Germany even teaches their youth about it to make sure ‘history never repeats itself’.
These two historical events could both be unrelated to my perception of historical revisionism, but if you all have any ideas how it could be connected or have ideas of your own, please feel free to comment.
by NoDraw5603