Yasukuni Shrine : history, memory, and Japan's unending postwar /

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This is the first extensive English-language study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It explores the controversial shrine's role in waging war, promoting peace, honoring the dead, and, in particular, building Japan's modern national identity. It traces Yasukuni's history from its...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Takenaka, Akiko, 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
©2015
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Subjects:
Yasukuni Jinja (Tokyo, Japan)
Yasukuni-Schrein
Shinto and state.
War memorials > Japan.
Shintō et État.
Monuments aux morts > Japon.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Shinto and state
War memorials
Japan
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Mobilizing death: developing the myth of Yasukuni
  • Institutionalizing joy: turning war into spectacle at Yasukuni Shrine
  • Networks of grief and pride: Yasukuni Shrine in regional Japan
  • Institutionalizing grief: Yasukuni Shrine and total war
  • Who has the right to mourn?: politics of enshrinement at Yasukuni Shrine
  • Mobilizing memories: postmemorial conservatism at Yasukuni today.

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