East Asia's Haunted Present — Praeger Security International

East Asia's Haunted Present Historical Memories and the Resurgence of Nationalism

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and Kazuhiko Togo

Book Code: C35612

ISBN: 0-313-35612-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-35612-4

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276 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication Date: 6/30/2008

List Price: $75.00 (UK Sterling Price: £51.95)

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Series Title: PSI Reports

Description: 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—especially China and South Korea. Moreover, it seeks to identify what set of conditions and what sequence of measures will 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.

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.

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

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