Table of Contents

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1 INTRODUCTION The Realms of Memory: Japan and Beyond

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Part 1 Memory in Politics and International Relations

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2 For the Nation or for the People? History and Memory of the Nanjing Massacre in Japan

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3 Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’ and Historical Memory: The Neo-nationalist Counter-attack

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4 Tokko– Zaidan: A Case Study of Institutional Japanese War Memorialization

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5 Remembering the War Crimes Trial: The Tokyo Trial View of History

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6 Historical Memory and Shiba Ryotaro: Remembering Russia, Creating Japan

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7 Developing Memories: Alumni Newsletters in Japanese Development Assistance

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Part 2 Institutions of Memory: Memorials, Museums, National Heroes

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8 Remodelling Public Space: the Fate of War Monuments, 1945–48

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9 The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and its Exhibition

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10 A Usable Past? Historical Museums of the Self-Defence Forces and the Construction of Continuities

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11 The New Image of Childhood in Japan During the Years 1945-49 and the Construction of a Japanese Collective Memory

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12 Sato– Eisaku, Yasuoka Masahiro and the Re-establishment of 11 February as National Day: The Political Use of National Memory in Post-war Japan

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13 How Did Saigo Takamori Become a National Hero After His Death? The Political Uses of Saigo’s Figure and the Interpretation of Seikanron

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Part 3 Popular and Intellectual Representations of Memory

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14 Literary Memories of the Pacific War – Fiction or Non-fiction? Some Criteria for Further Research on Japanese War Literature

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15 The Nokorimono Mode: Remembering the Atomic Bomb in The Diary of Moriwaki Yoko

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16 Becoming Insects: Imamura Shohei and the Entomology of Modernity

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17 Memories of a Liberal, Liberalism of Memory: Tsuda Sokichi and a Few Things He Forgot to Mention

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Part 4 Realms of Memory – Centre and Periphery

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18 New Dimensions in Sino-Japanese Relations and the Memory of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95

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19 Development for Preservation: Localizing Collective Memory in 1960s Kanazawa

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20 The Remembrance of the 1871 Nakano Uprising in Takayama Village as a Contemporary Trauma in Village Life Today

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21 History and the Construction of Collective Memory: Positivist Historiography in the Age of the Imperial Rescript on Education

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Index

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