Japan's contested war memories : the 'memory rifts' in historical consciousness of World War II

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Japan's contested war memories : the 'memory rifts' in historical consciousness of World War II

Philip A. Seaton

Routledge, 2007 , [Produced by Amazon]

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Japan's contested war memories : the "memory rifts" in historical consciousness of World War II

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Reprint. Originally published: London : Routledge , 2007

Printed in Japan

Original issued in series: RoutledgeCurzon contemporary Japan series

"First published 2007"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-244) and index

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Japan's Contested War Memories is an important and significant book that explores the struggles within contemporary Japanese society to come to terms with Second World War history. Focusing particularly on 1972 onwards, the period starts with the normalization of relations with China and the return of Okinawa to Japan in 1972, and ends with the sixtieth anniversary commemorations. Analyzing the variety of ways in which the Japanese people narrate, contest and interpret the past, the book is also a major critique of the way the subject has been treated in much of the English-language. Philip Seaton concludes that war history in Japan today is more divisive and widely argued over than in any of the other major Second World War combatant nations. Providing a sharp contrast to the many orthodox statements about Japanese 'ignorance', amnesia' and 'denial' about the war, this is an engaging and illuminating study that will appeal to scholars and students of Japanese history, politics, cultural studies, society and memory theory.

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Introduction 1. Historical Consciousness in Contemporary Japan 2. The 'Long Postwar' 3. 'Addressing the Past' 4. The War as a Current Affairs Issue 5. August Commemorations 6. History and Ideology 7. War Stories 8. Regional Memories 9. War and the Family. Epilogue

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