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Informationen zum Autor Marc Gallicchio is Professor of History at Villanova University. He is the author of The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895–1945 and The Cold War Begins in Asia: American East Asian Policy and the Fall of the Japanese Empire. Klappentext Collection explores the formation and uses of memory about the Asia-Pacific front of World War II, considering how it continues to shape political and diplomatic discourse. Zusammenfassung Examines how collective memories of Asia-Pacific War continue to affect relations among China! Japan! and United States. This book explores how American ideas about Japanese history shaped US occupation policy following Japan's surrender in 1945. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction / Marc Gallicchio 1 I. Memory’s Many Forms 1. Remembering Pearl Harbor before September 11, 2001 / Emily S. Rosenberg 15 II. Policymakers and the Uses of Historical Memory 2. The First Revisionists: Bonner Fellers, Herbert Hoover, and Japan’s Decision to Surrender / Haruo Iguchi 51 3. History and Memory in Postwar U.S.-Japanese Relations / Frank Ninkovich 85 4. Cold War Diplomacy and Memories of the Pacific War: A Comparison of the American and Japanese Cases / Takuya Sasaki 121 III. Making Memory Concrete: Museums, Monuments, and Memorials 5. Constructing a National Memory of the War: War Museums in China, Japan, and the United States / Xiaohua Ma 155 6. The Enola Gay and the Contested Public Memory / Waldo Heinrichs 201 7. War Memories across the Pacific Japanese Visitors at the Arizona Memorial / Yujin Yaguchi 234 IV. Transpacific Memories 8. Memory and the Lost Found Relationship between Black Americans and Japan / Marc Gallicchio 255 9. Entangled Memories: China in American and Japanese Remembrances of World War II / Daqing Yang 287 Concluding Remarks / Marc Gallicchio 319 Contributors 329 Index 331...
