Excavating the Power of Memory in Japan (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hook, Glenn D

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Excavating the power of memory offers a succinct examination of how memory is constructed, embedded and disseminated in contemporary Japanese society. It brings together in one volume intriguing cases of the role of memory in Okinawa, the International Criminal Court, the letters of Kamikaze pilots, and Japanese fishing communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317195610
• Artikelnr.: 54210676

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Excavating the power of memory in Japan 2. The American Eagle in
Okinawa: the politics of contested memory and the unfinished war 3. From
Tokyo to The Hague: war crime tribunals and (shifting?) memory politics in
Japan 4. Contested memories of the Kamikaze and the self-representations of
Tokko-tai youth in their missives home 5. Invisible landscapes. Winds,
experience and memory in Japanese coastal fishery