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War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005
War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005, Japan has long wrestled with the memories and legacies of World War II. In the aftermath of defeat, war memory developed as an integral part of particular and divergent approaches to postwar democracy. In the last six decades, the demands placed upon post, War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005 has a rating of 4.5 stars
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  • War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005
  • Written by author Franziska Seraphim
  • Published by Harvard University Asia Center, Publiications PRG, March 2008
  • Japan has long wrestled with the memories and legacies of World War II. In the aftermath of defeat, war memory developed as an integral part of particular and divergent approaches to postwar democracy. In the last six decades, the demands placed upon post
  • Japan has long wrestled with the memories and legacies of World War II. In the aftermath of defeat, war memory developed as an integral part of particular and divergent approaches to postwar democracy. In the last six decades, the demands placed upon post
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Figures and Tables     xiv
Introduction     1
Japan's History of War Memory: A Framework     4
The First Postwar Decade, 1945-1955     14
Interest-based Struggles over Memory, 1950s-1970s     20
Global Memory Cultures since the 1980s     25
War Memory and Democratic Rebuilding
The Politics of Essentialism: The Association of Shinto Shrines     35
Discarding the State, Embracing the Emperor     38
Shrines for the People     45
Memory and Shinto Restroationism     50
Fashioning National Heroes: The Japan Association of War-bereaved Families     60
Creating a Community of War-bereaved Families     63
Gendered Memory: War Widows     71
Social Welfare Measures     76
Bereavement and Nationalism     81
Forging Political Subjectivity: The Japan Teachers' Union     86
Riding the Wave of Democratic Change     89
The Struggle against State Coercion     95
Never Send Our Students to the Battlefield Again!     102
People's Diplomacy: The Japan-China Friendship Association     108
Responsibility Evaded: Reparations and an "Incomplete" Peace     113
Grassroots Diplomacy     119
Remembering JapaneseAggression     129
Commemorative Pacifism: The Japan Memorial Society for the Students Killed in the War     135
The Dead and the Living     139
Packaging the Wadatsumi Voices     145
The Politics of Pacifism     149
The Political Dynamics of War Memory
War Memory and Generational Change: Refashioning Special Interests     159
The Changing Temporality of the Past     160
The Emergence of "Generational Memory"     167
The Anti-Security Treaty Crisis     174
Managing the Transmission of Memory     181
Memory between Special and National Interests: Japan and Asia     189
Framing National Memories of War     195
Postwar "Settlements" with South Korea     202
The Specter of Japanese Militarism     206
The Debate over Okinawa's Reversion to Japan     214
Individual Action as Counter-memory     222
Patronizing the War Dead: The Contested Rites of Official Memory     226
Site of Memory, Symbol of Nation     230
The "Yasukuni Question"     235
The Contested Memory of the War Dead     246
Organizing Popular Nationalism     250
Changing Geographies of Memory
The Politics of Apology     261
Comparing Postwar Responsibilities     263
The Apology Conundrum     270
Toward Reconciliation     276
Cultures of Commemoration at Century's End     287
Confronting Silences: The Devil's Gluttony     288
Galvanizing Popular Audiences: Last Friends     295
The Izokukai's Last Hurrah? The Showa-kan     300
The Discourse about War Responsibility at the Turn of the Millennium     305
Conclusion     315
Reference Matter
Notes     327
Bibliography     357
Index     387


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