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Author Saito, Hiro (Sociologist), author.

Title The history problem : the politics of war commemoration in East Asia / Hiro Saito.

Publication Info. Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cross-national fragmentation, 1945-1964 -- The growth of transnational interactions, 1965-1988 -- Apologies and denunciations, 1989-1996 -- The coexistence of nationalism and cosmopolitanism, 1997-2015 -- The legacy of the Tokyo trial -- The role of historians in the history problem.
Summary Seventy years have passed since the end of the Asia-Pacific War, yet Japan remains embroiled in controversy with its neighbors over the war's commemoration. Among the many points of contention between Japan, China, and South Korea are interpretations of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, apologies and compensation for foreign victims of Japanese aggression, prime ministerial visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, and the war's portrayal in textbooks. Collectively, these controversies have come to be called the 'history problem.' But why has the problem become so intractable? Can it ever be resolved, and if so, how? To answer these questions author Hiro Saito mobilizes the sociology of collective memory and social movements, political theories of apology and reconciliation, psychological research on intergroup conflict, and philosophical reflections on memory and history.
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Subject Memorialization -- East Asia.
Nationalism and collective memory -- East Asia.
War and society -- East Asia.
East Asia -- Foreign relations.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Diplomatic relations. (OCoLC)fst01907412
Memorialization. (OCoLC)fst01200580
Nationalism and collective memory. (OCoLC)fst01744143
War and society. (OCoLC)fst01170447
East Asia. (OCoLC)fst01243628
HISTORY / Asia / General.
Other Form: Print version: Saito, Hiro (Sociologist). History problem. Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016] 9780824856748 0824856740 (DLC) 2016020564 (OCoLC)949922646
ISBN 9780824856779 (electronic bk.)
0824856775 (electronic bk.)
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