1st Edition

Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia Identity Politics, Schooling and Popular Culture

Edited By Paul Morris, Naoko Shimazu, Edward Vickers Copyright 2013
264 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In the decades since her defeat in the Second World War, Japan has continued to loom large in the national imagination of many of her East Asian neighbours. While for many, Japan still conjures up images of rampant military brutality, at different times and in different communities, alternative images of the Japanese ‘Other’ have vied for predominance – in ways that remain poorly understood, not... Read more

Introduction, Edward Vickers, Naoko Shimazu and Paul Morris  Part I: ‘Japan’ in Popular Culture and Public Propaganda 1. Beyond Mimesis: Japan and the Uses of Political Ideology in Singapore, Simon Avenell 2. Impressions of ‘Japan’ in Taiwan After 1990, Iyun Lee and Christine Han 3. Meanings of the Imagined Friends: Good Japanese in Chinese war films, Kinnia YAU Shuk-ting 4. Friend or Foe: Representations of Japan in the Print Media in the Philippines, 1940s to the Present, Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua 5. Japan in the Public Culture of South Korea: Conflicting Images Attached to Colonial Sites, Jung-sun Nina Han  Part II: ‘Japan’ in Official Discourse 6. Changing Views of the Anti-Japanese War in Chinese High School History Textbooks, Caroline Rose 7. Reconstructing the Nation: The Role of Sino-Japanese History in Hong Kong’s Schools, Paul Morris and Edward Vickers 8. Japan’s Place in Taiwan’s Textbooks, Alisa Jones 9. Japanese Occupation in the Malaysian History Textbooks, Helen Ting 10. The Portrayal of the Japanese as an ‘Other’ in Singapore’s School Textbook Narrative of the Japanese Occupation, Khatera Khamsi and Christine Han 11. Portrayal of Japanese Occupation in Philippine Textbooks and Filipino National Identity Formation, Mark Maca 12. The Annual Seminar of the History Teachers from China, Japan and South Korea: Achievements and Problems, Guopeng Shi

Biography

Paul Morris is a Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

Edward Vickers is Associate Professor of Comparative Education at Kyushu University, Japan.

Naoko Shimazu is Professor of History in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.