The History Problem : The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia

✍ Scribed by Saito, Hiro

Publisher: University of Hawai’i Press
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 293
Series: Knowledge unlatched.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Seventy years have passed since the end of the Asia-Pacific War, yet Japan remains embroiled in controversy with its neighbors over the war???s commemoration. Among the many points of contention between Japan, China, and South Korea are interpretations of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, apologies and compensation for foreign victims of Japanese aggression, prime ministerial visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, and the war???s Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Cross-national fragmentation, 1945-1964 --
The growth of transnational interactions, 1965-1988 --
Apologies and denunciations, 1989-1996 --
The coexistence of nationalism and cosmopolitanism, 1997-2015 --
The legacy of the Tokyo trial --
The role of historians in the history problem.

✦ Subjects

Diplomatic relations;Memorialization -- East Asia;Memorialization;Commémorations;Nationalism and collective memory -- East Asia;Nationalism and collective memory;Nationalisme et mémoire collective;War and society -- East Asia;War and society;Guerre et société;East Asia;History

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