Excavating the Power of Memory in Japan

Informationen zum Autor 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). Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Excavating the power of memory in Japan Glenn D. Hook2. The American Eagle in Okinawa: the politics of contested memory and the unfinished warGlenn D. Hook3. From Tokyo to The Hague: war crime tribunals and (shifting?) memory politics in Japan Kerstin Lukner4. Contested memories of the Kamikaze and the self-representations of Tokko-tai youth in their missives home Luli van der Does-Ishikawa5. Invisible landscapes. Winds! experience and memory in Japanese coastal fishery Giovanni Bulian

Product details

• Authors: Glenn D Hook
• Assisted by: Glenn D Hook (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2016
• EAN: 9781138677296
• ISBN: 978-1-138-67729-6
• No. of pages: 126
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Japan, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, Asian History, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Non-Western philosophy