Japan's Contested War Memories
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Japan's Contested War Memories

The 'Memory Rifts' in Historical Consciousness of World War II

Philip A. Seaton

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Japan's Contested War Memories

The 'Memory Rifts' in Historical Consciousness of World War II

Philip A. Seaton

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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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2007
ISBN
9781134150045
Edition
1

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