Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan's Empire Hardback
Edited by Edward (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan) Boyle, Steven (Kyoto University, Japan) Ivings
Part of the SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan series
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Ongoing arguments over how histories are honoured – as evidenced by the conflict between South Korea and Japan over the opening of Tokyo’s Heritage Information Centre in June 2020 – reveal the extent to which heritage processes continue to enable states to assert legitimacy and power on a global stage.
Here, Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan’s Empire: Borders of Memory shines a timely spotlight on the complicated histories and disputed legacies of various sites associated with Japan’s empire in Asia and the Pacific. Bringing together a team of international scholars, this transnational study sees contested memorial spaces as windows for us to explore how borders are created, moved and altered in everyday life.
From the Asan Bay Overlook Memorial Wall in Guam and the Puppet Emperor Palace in China to Japan’s Ainu Museum and Thailand’s Victory Monument, the diverse range of case studies examined here ground the complex relationship Japan and its neighbours have with their imperial past and reveal how these relations stand at the intersection of individual actions, societal choices and memory collectives.
In doing so, this innovative collection of essays bridges history, geography and heritage studies to provide an invaluable new approach to the study of imperial conflict and memory politics in modern Japan.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:17/10/2024
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- ISBN:9781350324602
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Pre-Order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:17/10/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350324602
