The Power of Memory in Modern Japan

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List of contributors Note on transliteration 1 The realms of memory: Japan and beyond PART 1: Memory in politics and international relations 2 For the nation or for the people? History and memory of the Nanjing Massacre in Japan 3 Japan's 'Comfort Women' and historical memory: The neo-nationalist counter-attack 4 Tokko Zaidan: A case study of institutional war memorialization 5 Remembering the War Crimes Trial: The Tokyo Trial view of history 6 Historical memory and Shiba Ryotaro: Remembering Russia, creating Japan 7 Developing memories: Alumni newsletters in Japanese development assistance PART 2: Institutions of memory: Memorials, museums, national heroes 8 Remodelling public space: The fate of war monuments, 1945-48 9 The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and its exhibition 10 A usable past? Historical museums of the Self-Defence Forces and the construction of continuities 11 The new image of childhood in Japan during the years 1945-49 and the construction of a Japanese collective memory 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 13 How did Saigo Takamori become a national hewro after his death? The political uses of Saigo's figure and the interpretation of seikanron PART 3: Popular and intellectual representations of memory 14 Literary memories of the Pacific War - fiction or non-fiction? Some criteria for further research on Japanese war literature 15 The Nokorimono mode: Remembering the atomic bomb in The Diary of Moriwaki Yoko 16 Becoming insects: Imamura Shohei and the entomology of modernity 17 Memories of a liberal, liberalization of memory: Tsuda Sokichi and a few things he forgot to mention PART 4: Realms of memory - centre and periphery 18 New dimensions in Sino-Japanese relations and the memory of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894-95 19 Development for preservation: Localizing collective memory in 1960s Kanazawa 20 The remembrance of the 1871 Nakano Uprising in Takayama Village as a contemporary trauma in village life today 21 History and the construction of collective memory: Positivist historiography in the age of the Imperial Rescript on Education Index