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In this concluding chapter, I summarise the process of making the URA incident visible via cinema and discuss some of the memory work that has taken place since. I argue that while this new visibility has been used by some to make claims about Japan’s precarious youth, such claims have the potential to suck the question of political participation in Japan back into the black hole of history. The chapter concludes with a consideration of the dangers presented by this new visibility, the potential rehabilitation of the URA into mainstream Japanese society, and a suggestion for future programmes of research.
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Perkins, C. (2015). Conclusion. In: The United Red Army on Screen: Cinema, Aesthetics and The Politics of Memory. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137480354_6
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