Is Your War over Now? Nationalism, Nostalgia, and Japan’s Long Postwar from <i>Gojira</i> (1954) to <i>Godzilla Minus One</i> (2023) by William M. Tsutsui

“…The analysis focuses on Honda Ishirō’s <i>Gojira</i> (1954), in which pacifist sentiments are tempered by depictions of military weaponry and patriotic pride, and Yamazaki Takashi’s <i>Godzilla Minus One</i> (2023), where ahistorical narratives, misty-eyed nostalgia, and ultranationalist tropes co-exist with strong anti-authoritarian and anti-establishment themes. …”
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Evergreen Avengers: Nature and <i>Kaijū</i> in the Twenty-First Century by Sean Rhoads, Brooke McCorkle Okazaki

“…Meanwhile, Japan’s Tōhō used their radioactive creation’s global success to reignite their own films with <i>Shin Godzilla</i> (2016), an animated trilogy, and <i>Godzilla Minus One</i> (2023). …”
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