The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia 9780824856779
Seventy years have passed since the end of the Asia-Pacific War, yet Japan remains embroiled in controversy with its nei
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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Cross-National Fragmentation, 1945–1964
Chapter 2. The Growth of Transnational Interactions, 1965–1988
Chapter 3. Apologies and Denunciations, 1989–1996
Chapter 4. The Coexistence of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism, 1997–2015
Chapter 5. The Legacy of the Tokyo Trial
Chapter 6. The Role of Historians in the History Problem
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
