1st Edition
The Politics of War Memory in Japan Progressive Civil Society Groups and Contestation of Memory of the Asia-Pacific War
By Kamila Szczepanska
Copyright 2014
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since the 1990s, questions of Japanese wartime conduct, apologies for aggression, and compensation to former victims of the country’s imperial policies, have been brought to the fore of national and regional politics. The state is undoubtedly the most important actor in the process of memory production and along with conservative legislators and the grass-root revisionist movement there has been... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Performing 'Politics of (War) Memory' 3. The Actors 4. How do You Make Your Voice Heard? Clarifying Historical Record and Reaching out to the Public 5. How do You Make Your Voice Heard? Engaging the Mass Media 6. How do You Make Your Voice Heard? Targeting National and Local Government 7. How do You Make Your Voice Heard? Transnational Networking and Cooperation with International Institutions 8. Conclusion
Biography
Kamila Szczepanska is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Institute of East Asian Politics at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
