Yasukuni Shrine history, memory, and Japan's unending postwar
The first extensive English-language study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It explores the controversial shrine's role in waging war, promoting peace, honouring the dead, and, in particular, building Japan's modern national identity. It traces Yasukuni's history from its concept...
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| Language: | English |
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Honolulu
University of Hawaii Press
2015
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| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Table of Contents:
- Mobilizing death: developing the myth of Yasukuni
- Institutionalizing joy: turning war into spectacle at Yasukuni Shrine
- Networks of grief and pride: Yasukuni Shrine in regional Japan
- Institutionalizing grief: Yasukuni Shrine and total war
- Who has the right to mourn?: politics of enshrinement at Yasukuni Shrine
- Mobilizing memories: postmemorial conservatism at Yasukuni today