Matthew PenneyMatthew Penney is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University in Montreal and a Japan Focus associate. He is currently conducting research on popular representations of war in Japan. His dissertation, entitled “Victims and Victimizers – Representations of War in Japanese Popular Culture,” is concerned with Japanese historical memory and popular attempts to deal with war crimes and
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