Waiting for the Cool MoonIn Waiting for the Cool Moon Wendy Matsumura interrogates the erasure of colonial violence at the heart of Japanese nation state formation. She critiques Japan studies role in this effacement and contends that it must engage with anti Blackness and anti Indigeneity as the grounds upon which to understand imperialism, colonialism, fascism, and other forces that shape national consciousness. Drawing on Black radical thinkers critique of the erasure of