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Inherited Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asia

200 Pages

by Routledge

194 Pages

by Routledge

200 Pages

by Routledge

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Contemporary East Asian societies are still struggling with complex legacies of colonialism, war and domination. Years of Japanese imperial occupation followed by the Cold War have entrenched competing historical understandings of responsibility for past crimes in Korea, China, Japan and elsewhere in the region. In this context, even the impressive economic and cultural networks that have... Read more

Part I: Introduction 1. ‘Inherited’ Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asian Context Jun-Hyeok Kwak & Melissa Nobles Part II: Theoretical Overview 2. Owning the Misdeeds of Japan’s Wartime Regime Farid Abdel-Nour 3. Historic injustice and the inheritance of rights and duties in East Asia Daniel Butt 4. Inherited Responsibility and the Challenge of Political Reconciliation Ernesto Verdeja Part III: Historical Reconciliation in East Asia 5. Historical Reconciliation in Southeast Asia: Notes from Singapore Tze M. Loo 6. Remembering and Forgetting the War: Elite Mythmaking, Mass Reaction, and Sino-Japanese Relations Yinan He 7. Appropriating Defeat: Japan, America, and Eto Jun’s Historical Reconciliations Naoyuki Umemori 8. "Comfort Women" and Japan’s National Responsibility: A Case Study in Reconciling Feminism and Nationalism Historical Reconciliation in China Ranjoo Herr 9. Captives of the Past: The Questions of Responsibility and Reconciliation in North Korea’s Narratives of the Korean War Balazs Szalontai