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From cultures of war to cultures of peace : war and peace museums in Japan, China, and South Korea / Takashi Yoshida.
Penn Museum Library HM554 .Y67 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yoshida, Takashi, 1963- author.
- Series:
- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military museums.
- Peace--Museums.
- Peace.
- War and society.
- Peace movements.
- Collective memory--Social aspects.
- Collective memory.
- Responsibility--Social aspects.
- Responsibility.
- Memorialization--Social aspects.
- Memorialization.
- History, Military.
- Social aspects.
- Museums.
- Japan--History, Military.
- Japan.
- China--History, Military.
- China.
- Korea (South)--History, Military.
- Korea (South).
- Physical Description:
- xix, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Portland, Maine : MerwinAsia, [2014]
- Summary:
- Professor Yoshida examines historical analyses of war and pence museums from the late 19th century to the present and races the historical development of a pacifist discourse in postwar Japan that centered oil Japan's war crimes and responsibility during the so-called Fifteen Year War (1931-1945). Prior to the defeat, a culture of war gripped the Japanese empire. Every segment of Japanese popular culture during the war bore witness to the flood of patriotism. Textbooks, comic books, board games, children's plays, movies, and war museums all propagated righteous images of Imperial Japan, idealizing is rule over colonial territories and romanticizing its war effort. Whereas only a relative handful of leftist Japanese saw Japan as a predatory state during the War, however, this awareness achieved road acceptance among Japanese people with its defeat. In this book Yoshida attempts to demonstrate that the acceptance of Japanese wartime aggression and atrocities as historical facts remains evident to this day in the culture of peace museums in Japan. Those who have little knowledge of contemporary Japan often hastily conclude that the Japanese have been united and monolithic in the way they feel the war should be remembered. This book seeks to challenge that assumption. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Rise and Fall of War Museums in Imperial Japan 1
- Chapter 2 The Rise of Multi-layered Pacifism and Early Peace Museums in Postwar Japan 20
- Chapter 3 Expansion of Peace Museums: Acknowledging Japanese Aggression 48
- Chapter 4 Bringing Peace to War Dead 112
- Chapter 5 The Revival of War Museums in Postwar Japan 144
- Chapter 6 History Wars: Responding to Pressures from Different Interest Groups 162
- Chapter 7 Peace Museums in China and South Korea 199.
- Notes:
- "Professor Yoshida examines historical analyses of war and peace museums from the late 19th century to the present and traces the historical development of a pacifist discourse in postwar Japan that centered on Japan's war crimes and responsibility ..."--Back cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-294) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781937385446
- 1937385442
- 9781937385439
- 1937385434
- OCLC:
- 833574066
- Publisher Number:
- 99958155440
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