TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saito, Hiro
AB  - Seventy years have passed since the end of the Asia-Pacific War, yet Japan remains embroiled in controversy with its neighbors over the war’s commemoration. Among the many points of contention between Japan, China, and South Korea are interpretations of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, apologies and compensation for foreign victims of Japanese aggression, prime ministerial visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, and the war’s portrayal in textbooks. Collectively, these controversies have come to be called the “history problem.” But why has the problem become so intractable? Can it ever be resolved, and if so, how? To answer these questions, Hiro Saito mobilizes the sociology of collective memory and social movements, political theories of apology and reconciliation, psychological research on intergroup conflict, and philosophical reflections on memory and history.
DO  - 10.26530/oapen_625901
ID  - OAPEN ID: 625901
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 964698883
KW  - History
KW  - History
KW  - China
KW  - Comfort women
KW  - Japa
KW  - Japan
KW  - South Korea
KW  - Tokyo
KW  - Textbook
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/60bc3680-0949-4052-9db8-700023ce8653/625901.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31678
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45680
PB  - University of Hawai'i Press
PY  - 2016-12-31
SN  - 9780824874391;9780824879747
TI  - The History Problem : The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia
ER  - 
