1st Edition

Excavating the Power of Memory in Japan

Edited By Glenn D Hook Copyright 2016
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

Excavating the power of memory offers a succinct examination of how memory is constructed, embedded and disseminated in contemporary Japanese society. The unique range and perspective of this collection will provide an understanding not found elsewhere. It starts with a lucid introduction of how memory plays a political and wider social role in Japan. Four case studies follow. The first takes up... Read more

1. Excavating the power of memory in Japan
Glenn D. Hook

2. The American Eagle in Okinawa: the politics of contested memory and the unfinished war
Glenn D. Hook

3. From Tokyo to The Hague: war crime tribunals and (shifting?) memory politics in Japan
Kerstin Lukner

4. Contested memories of the Kamikaze and the self-representations of Tokko-tai youth in their missives home
Luli van der Does-Ishikawa

5. Invisible landscapes. Winds, experience and memory in Japanese coastal fishery
Giovanni Bulian

Biography

Glenn D. Hook is Toshiba International Foundation Anniversary Research Professor in the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UK. His recent publications include Regional risk and security in Japan: Whither the everyday (co-author, Routledge, 2015) and Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security, third edition, (co-author, Routledge, 2012).