The Power of Memory in Modern Japan

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Sven Saaler, Wolfgang Schwentker
Global Oriental, 2008/06/26 - 394 ページ
Due to their symbolic and iconographic meanings, expressions of ‘collective memory’ constitute the mental topography of a society and make a powerful contribution to its cultural, political and social identity. In Japan, the subject of ‘memory’ has prompted a huge response in recent years. Indeed, it has been and continues to be debated at many levels of Japan’s political, social, economic and cultural life. For the historian and social scientist the opportunity to access recorded memories is invariably welcomed as a valuable building block in research and a determinant in establishing balance and perspective. This volume brings together a selection of the most significant research on memory relating to modern Japan. Thematically structured (Politics and International Relations; Memorials, Museums, National Heroes; Popular and Intellectual Representations of Memory; Realms of Memory: Centre and Periphery) the subjects treated include the Nanjing massacre, comfort women, the fate of war monuments, the political use of national memory in post-war Japan and remembering the atomic bomb.
 

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Japan and Beyond
1
Part 1 Memory in Politics and International Relations
15
2 For the Nation or for the People? History and Memory of the Nanjing Massacre in Japan
17
The Neonationalist Counterattack
32
A Case Study of Institutional Japanese War Memorialization
54
The Tokyo Trial View of History
78
Remembering Russia Creating Japan
96
Alumni Newsletters in Japanese Development Assistance
116
13 How Did Saigo Takamori Become a National Hero After His Death? The Political Uses of Saigos Figure and the Interpretation of Seikanron
222
Part 3 Popular and Intellectual Representations of Memory
241
14 Literary Memories of the Pacific War Fiction or Nonfiction? Some Criteria for Further Research on Japanese War Literature
243
Remembering the Atomic Bomb in The Diary of Moriwaki Yoko
257
Imamura Shohei and the Entomology of Modernity
277
Tsuda Sokichi and a Few Things He Forgot to Mention
291
Part 4 Realms of Memory Centre and Periphery
309
18 New Dimensions in SinoJapanese Relations and the Memory of the SinoJapanese War of 189495
311

Memorials Museums National Heroes
133
the Fate of War Monuments 194548
135
9 The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and its Exhibition
155
10 A Usable Past? Historical Museums of the SelfDefence Forces and the Construction of Continuities
171
11 The New Image of Childhood in Japan During the Years 194549 and the Construction of a Japanese Collective Memory
189
The Political Use of National Memory in Postwar Japan
204
Localizing Collective Memory in 1960s Kanazawa
319
20 The Remembrance of the 1871 Nakano Uprising in Takayama Village as a Contemporary Trauma in Village Life Today
337
Positivist Historiography in the Age of the Imperial Rescript on Education
360
Index
375
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