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Online Ressource (x, 381 p.)
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9789004213203
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9004213201
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Due to their symbolic and iconographic meanings, expressions of 'collective memory' constitute the mental topography of a society and make a powerful contribution to its cultural, political and social identity. In Japan, the subject of 'memory' has prompted a huge response in recent years. Indeed, it has been and continues to be debated at many levels of Japan's political, social, economic and cultural life. For the historian and social scientist the opportunity to access recorded memories is invariably welcomed as a valuable building block in research and a determinant in establishing balance and perspective. This volume brings together a selection of the most significant research on memory relating to modern Japan. Thematically structured (Politics and International Relations; Memorials, Museums, National Heroes; Popular and Intellectual Representations of Memory; Realms of Memory: Centre and Periphery) the subjects treated include the Nanjing massacre, comfort women, the fate of war monuments, the political use of national memory in post-war Japan and remembering the atomic bomb
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Introduction: The realms of memory : Japan and beyond / Sven Saaler, Wolfgang Schwentker -- pt. 1. Memory in politics and international relations. For the nation or for the people? History and memory of the Nanjing Massacre in Japan / Takashi Yoshida ; Japan's "comfort women" and historical memory : the neo-nationalist counter-attack / Yonson Ahn ; Tokkō Zaidan : a case study of institutional Japanese war memorialization / M.G. Sheftall ; Remembering the war crimes trial : the Tokyo trial view of history / Yuki Takatori ; Historical memory and Shiba Ryōtarō : remembering Russia, creating Japan / Alexander Bukh ; Developing memories : alumni newsletters in Japanese development assistance / Annette Skovsted Hansen -- pt. 2. Institutions of memory : memorials, museums, national heroes. Remodelling public space : the fate of war monuments, 1945-48 / Michael Lucken ; the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and its exhibition / Stefanie Schäfer ; A usable past? Historical museums of the Self-Defence Forces and the construction of continuities / André Hertrich ; The new image of childhood in Japan during the years 1945-49 and the construction of a Japanese collective memory / Christian Galan ; Satō Eisaku, Yasuoka Masahiro and the re-establishment of 11 February as National Day : the political use of national memory in post-war Japan / Eddy Dufourmont ; How did Saigō Takamori become a national hero after his death? The political uses of Saigō's figure and the interpretation of seikanron / Noriko Berlinguez-Kōno -- pt. 3. Popular and intellectual representations of memory. Literary memories of the Pacific War-- fiction or non-fiction? Some criteria for further research on Japanese war literature / Harald Meyer ; The Nokorimono mode : remembering the atomic bomb in The Diary of Moriwaki Yōko / Adam Lebowitz ; Becoming insects : Imamura Shōhei and the entomology of modernity / Bill Mihalopoulos ; Memories of a liberal, liberalism of memory : Tsuda Sōkichi and a few things he forgot to mention / Joël Joos -- pt. 4. Realms of memory : centre and periphery. New dimensions in Sino-Japanese War, 1894-95 / Valdo Ferretti ; Development for preservation : localizing collective memory in 1960s Kanazawa / Peter Siegenthaler ; The remembrance of the 1871 Nakano Uprising in Takayama Village as a contemporary trauma in village life today / Selc̨uk Esenbel ; History and the construction of collective memory : positivist historiography in the age of the imperial rescript on education / Alistair Swale.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
9781905246380
Additional Edition:
1905246382
Additional Edition:
9781905246380
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe International Conference of the EAJS (European Association for Japanese Studies) (11th : 2005 : Vienna, Austria). History, Politics and International Relations Section Power of memory in modern Japan Folkestone, UK : Global Oriental, 2008 9781905246380
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English
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