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Summary:

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 portrayal in textbooks. Collectively, these controversies have come to be called the 'history problem.' But why has the problem become so intractable? Can it ever be resolved, and if so, how? To answer these questions author Hiro Saito mobilizes the sociology of collective memory and social movements, political theories of apology and reconciliation, psychological research on intergroup conflict, and philosophical reflections on memory and history.

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.

Author/Creator:

Saito, Hiro (Sociologist) , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Main Work:

The history problem: the politics of war commemoration in East Asia [by Saito, H.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: History problem [by Saito, H.] (Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016] — ISBN 9780824856748; ISBN 0824856740; LCCN 2016020564; OCLC Number 949922646)

Subjects:

Memorialization — East Asia

Nationalism and collective memory — East Asia

War and society — East Asia

East Asia — Foreign relations

Memorialization

Nationalism and collective memory

War and society

Diplomatic relations

Asia — Orient

East Asia

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 2, 2016).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DS518.1 .S258 2016eb

ISBNs:

9780824856779 (electronic bk.)
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OCLC Numbers:

964698883