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War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Postwar Japan The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and Ienaga Saburo's Court Challenges
1. Japan’s Defeat, Educational Reform, and the Japanese National Narrative and Identity in the Early Postwar Years, 1945-1965 2. The Politics Over eduCation: Oppositional Forces and Ienaga Saburo’s First and Second Textbook Lawsuits, 1950s-1970s 3. Counter Memories of the Asia-Pacific War: The Struggle for Recognition, the History Controversy, and School texTbooks in the 1970s 4. Ienaga Saburo’s Third Lawsuit and Strategic Conjunctures: Changing Intra- and Inter-National Relations and the Textbook Controversy in the 1980s 5. What is Historical Fact? Dispute Over Historical Research and Education in Court 6. Court Decisions on Ienaga Saburo’s Lawsuits and Critical Trends in History Textbooks, the Late 1980s-1997 7. Nationalism, Democracy, and the Textbook Market: Right-Wing Nationalist History Textbook Projects, 1982-2007. Epilogue: The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and the Significance of Ienaga Saburo’s Textbook Lawsuits
Biography
Yoshiko Nozaki
"In summary…the book is a good read with substantial material on the account of the long processes of Ienaga’s court challenges and the overall controversies about the interpretation of the troubled national past of Japan." - Masako Shibata, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences,University of Tsukuba, Japan Asia Pacific Journal of Education
