East Asia's Haunted Present

by Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi

• ISBN13: 9780313356124
• ISBN10: 0313356122
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Praeger Security Intl

Summary

This collection of essays by leading scholars from Japan, China, South Korea, and the United States examines how and why bitter historical memories have resurfaced in recent years as freshly virulent and contentious issues between Japan and its neighbors--especially China and South Korea. Moreover, it seeks to identify what set of conditions and what sequence of measures will enable these modern nations to manage, palliate, and exorcise the wrongs of the past in a spirit of reconciliation, so that the dangerous growth of nationalist resentments and revanchism can be checked.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

Dealing with Difficult Pasts: Japans History Problem from a Theoretical and Comparative Perspective

East Asian Historical Issues in a Contemporary Light

Japans Historical Memory: Overcoming Polarization toward Synthesis

The History Textbook Issue in Japan and East Asia: Institutional Framework, Controversies and International Efforts for Common Histories

Myths, Milieu, and Facts: History Textbook Controversies in North East Asia

Yasukuni and Japans International Relations

Comfort Women: Deep Polariza5tion in Japan on Facts and on Morality

Japans Neo-Nationalism and Chinas Response

Japans Role in Chinas Nationalism

Historical Memory and the Resurgence of Nationalism, In Korea Park

The United States and Reconciliation in East Asia

Russia and Historical Memories in East Asia

Conclusion

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