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War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005 /

This text unravels the political dynamics in that governed the place of war memory in public life. Far from reconciling with the victims of imperialism, conservative administrations have left the memory of the war to representatives of citizen movements, all of whom used war memory to further their...

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Autor principal: Seraphim, Franziska, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Harvard University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction. Japan's history of war memory: a framework ; The first postwar decade, 1945-1955 ; Interest-based struggles over memory, 1950s-1970s ; Global memory cultures since the 1980s -- Part I. War memory and democratic rebuilding. 1. The politics of essentialism: the Association of Shinto Shrines. Discarding the state, embracing the emperor ; Shrines for the people ; Memory and Shinto restorationism -- 2. Fashioning national heroes: The Japan Association of War-bereaved Families. Creating a community of war bereaved families ; Gendered memory: war widows ; Social welfare measures ; Bereavement and nationalism -- 3. Forging political subjectivity: The Japan Teachers' Union. Riding the wave of democratic change ; The struggle against state coercion ; Never send our students to the battlefield again! -- 4. People's diplomacy: The Japan-China Friendship Association. Responsibility evaded: reparations and an "incomplete" peace ; Grassroots diplomacy ; Remembering Japanese aggression -- 5. Commemorative pacifism: The Japan Memorial Society for the Students Killed in the War. The dead and the living ; Packaging the Wadatsumi Voices ; The politics of pacifism -- Part II. The political dynamics of war memory. 6. War memory and generational change: refashioning special interests. The changing temporality of the past ; The emergence of "generational memory" ; The Anti-Security Treaty crisis ; Managing the transmission of memory -- 7. Memory between special and national interests: Japan and Asia. Framing national memories of war ; Postwar "settlements" with South Korea ; The specter of Japanese militarism ; The debate over Okinawa's reversion to Japan ; Individual action as counter-memory -- 8. Patronizing the war dead: the contested rites of official memory. Site of memory, symbol of nation ; The "Yasukuni question" ; The contested memory of the war dead ; Organizing popular nationalism -- Part III. Changing geographies of memory. 9. The politics of apology. Comparing postwar responsibilities ; The apology conundrum ; Toward reconciliation -- 10. Cultures of commemoration at century's end. Confronting silences: the devil's gluttony ; Galvanizing popular audiences: last friends ; The Izokukai's last hurrah? The Showa-kan ; The discourse about war responsibility at the turn of the millennium -- Conclusion. 
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