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East Asia's Haunted Present Historical Memories and the Resurgence of Nationalism
Book Code: C35612
ISBN: 0-313-35612-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-35612-4
276 pages, figures; tables
Praeger Security International
Publication: 6/30/2008
List Price: $75.00 (UK Sterling Price: £41.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Comfort women ... the Yasukuni Shrine ... the history textbook controversies ... The single sorest issue confronting East Asia today is the growing animosity and conflict between Japan and its neighbors--especially China and South Korea--over their respective and collective memories of Japan's pre-1945 militaristic aggression, oppression, and atrocities. Even as East Asia has established itself as one of the most vibrant economic regions of the world, the strident nationalisms that have emerged here in the post-Cold War period have exacerbated historical grievances and heightened the international tensions that separate Japan from China and South Korea, blocking the development of an international system based on comity and cooperation. This collection of essays by leading scholars from Japan, China, South Korea, and the United States examines how and why bitter historical memories have resurfaced in recent years as freshly virulent and contentious issues between Japan and its neighbors. And it seeks to identify what set of conditions and what sequence of measures will ever enable these modern nations to manage, palliate, and exorcise the wrongs of the past in a spirit of reconciliation, so that the dangerous growth of nationalist resentments and revanchism can be checked.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Introduction Tsuyoshi Hasegawa & Kazuhiko Togo
  • Chapter 1 Dealing with Difficult Pasts: Japans History Problem from a Theoretical and Comparative Perspective
  • Tomas Berger
  • Chapter 2 East Asian Historical Issues in a Contemporary Light Golbert Rozman
  • Chapter 3 Japans Historical Memory: Overcoming Polarization toward Synthesis Kazuhiko Togo
  • Chapter 4 The History Textbook Issue in Japan and East Asia: Institutional Framework, Controversies and International Efforts for Common Histories Hiroshi Mitani
  • Chapter 5 Myths, Milieu, and Facts: History Textbook Controversies in North East Asia Mikyoung Kim
  • Chapter 6 Yasukuni and Japans International Relations Akihiko Tanaka
  • Chapter 7 Comfort Women: Deep Polariza5tion in Japan on Facts and on Morality Kazuhiko Togo
  • Chapter 8 Japans Neo-Nationalism and Chinas Response
  • Jin Linbo
  • Chapter 9 Japans Role in Chinas Nationalism Zhu Jianrong
  • Chapter 10 Historical Memory and the Resurgence of Nationalism
  • In Korea Park Cheol Hee
  • Chapter 11 The United States and Reconciliation in East Asia David Straub
  • Chapter 12 Russia and Historical Memories in East Asia Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
  • Conclusion Kazuhiko Togo & Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
LC Card Number: 2008008984
LCC Class: DS518
Dewey Class: 327
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