Understanding history in Asia : what diplomatic documents reveal / Hattori Ryūji ; translated by Tara Cannon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hattori, Ryūji, 1968- author.

服部龍二, 1968- author.

Contributor:

Cannon, Tara, translator.

Series:

Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)

Japan library

Standardized Title:

Gaikō dokyumento rekishi ninshiki. English

外交ドキュメント, 歴史認識. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2019031578

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Korea (South).

Japan.

Japan--Foreign relations--1945-.

Japan--Foreign relations--China.

China.

China--Foreign relations--Japan.

Japan--Foreign relations--Korea (South).

Korea (South)--Foreign relations--Japan.

Physical Description:

267 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First English edition.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo, Japan : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2019.

Summary:

The twentieth century has been called a century of war. Wars and colonization leave deep chasms between countries. In the case of Japan, these frictions have manifested themselves as historical issues. The history since World War II has also been a history of trying to overcome the hostility surrounding these issues. Since the end of the war there have been various attempts at reconciliation, and indeed, periods in which Japan has enjoyed good relations with China and also with South Korea. Despite that, historical issues have overheated in the twenty-first century, and their effects may extend beyond Japan's relations with China and South Korea to impact its relations with the United States, Southeast Asia, and Europe. -- Publisher

Contents:

The Japanese history textbook issue and "mutual trust"

Official visits to Yasukuni shrine

The comfort women issue

The Murayama statement

Going beyond the century of war.

Notes:

Originally published in Japan by Iwanami Shoten, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-267).

ISBN:

9784866580548

4866580542

OCLC:

1091359149