On November 11, 2024, the Nobel Committee decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the anti-nuclear weapons movement Nihon Hidankyō. This decision not only acknowledged the movement’s ongoing commitment, shaped by its members’ traumatic experiences of ‘Hiroshima’ and ‘Nagasaki’. It was also an attempt to shape the present and imaginatively construct possible livable futures. Likewise, written history is often considered a fiction that primarily contributes to the formation, stabilization, and self-assertion of nation-states. In Japan, dominant historical narratives, such as Japanese victimization, have been foundational since the post-war period. The participants in the workshop Revisiting the Asia-Pacific War in Japan: Cultural Artifacts and Intellectual Discourse, organised by DIJ researcher Carolin Fleischer-Heininger, will explore how these narratives are being selectively contested by cultural artifacts and counter discourses. This event is part of the Max Weber Foundation series The Ends of War. International Perspectives on World War II. Details and registration here