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Course Reader The Politics of Memory in Japan and East Asia Sven Saaler and Justin Aukema Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Course Reader no. 7

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The Politics of Memory
in Japan and East Asia
Sven Saaler and Justin Aukema
Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Course Reader no. 7
2013

The Politics of Memory in Japan and East Asia
Introduction

Part 1: Introduction to the Topic: Memory, Responsibility, Reconciliation

Miriam Silverberg
Miriam Silverberg, “War Responsibility Revisited: Auschwitz in Japan,”
The Asia-Pacific Journal, July 11, 2007.
Richard Falk
Richard Falk, “War, War Crimes, Power and Justice: Toward a
Jurisprudence of Conscience,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 10.4.3, January 23,
2012.
Lily Gardner Feldman
Lily Gardner Feldman, “German-Polish Reconciliation in Comparative
Perspective: Lessons for Japan?,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 10.16.1, April
19, 2010.
Kazuhiko TOGO
Kazuhiko Togo, “Japan's historical Memory: Reconciliation With Asia,”
The Asia-Pacific Journal 8.52.4, December 23, 2008.
WADA Haruki
Wada Haruki, “Maritime Asia and the Future of a Northeast Asia
Community,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, October 27, 2008.


Part 2: Topics of Historical Memory in Japan

Section A: War Responsibility and Reparations

AWAYA Kentaro
Awaya Kentaro, “The Tokyo Tribunal, War Responsibility and the
Japanese People,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, February 2, 2006. 
Yuki TANAKA
Yuki Tanaka, “Crime and Responsibility: War, the State, and Japanese
Society,” The Asia Pacific Journal, August 20, 2006.
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Tessa Morris-Suzuki, “Who is Responsible? The Yomiuri Project and the
Enduring Legacy of the Asia-Pacific War,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, June
19, 2007.
William Underwood
William Underwood, “The Aso Mining Company in World War II: History
and Japan’s Would-Be Premier,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, October 6, 2007.
Ivy Lee
Ivy Lee, “Toward Reconciliation: The Nishimatsu Settlements for Chinese
Forced Labor in World War Two,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 10.32.6, August
9, 2010.
KANG Jian with an Introduction by William Underwood
Kang Jian, “Rejected by All Plaintiffs: Failure of the NishimatsuShinanogawa ‘Settlement’ with Chinese Forced Laborers in Wartime
Japan,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 10.32.5, August 9, 2010.

Section B: War Crimes

Mark Selden
Mark Selden, “War Crimes, Atrocities, and State Terrorism,” The AsiaPacific Journal, April 15, 2008.
Yoshiko NOZAKI
Yoshiko Nozaki, “The Comfort Women Controversy: History and
Testimony,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, n.d.
Kinue TOKUDOME
Kinue Tokudome, “The Japanese Apology on the ‘Comfort Women’ Cannot
Be Considered Official: Interview with Congressman Michael Honda,” The
Asia-Pacific Journal, May 31, 2007.
Frederick R. Dickinson
Frederick R. Dickinson, “Biohazard: Unit 731 in Postwar Japanese Politics
of National ‘Forgetfulness,’” The Asia-Pacific Journal, October 12, 2007.
SUZUKI Chieko
Suzuki Chieko, “The Hundred Head Contest: Reassessing the Nanjing
Massacre,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, n.d.

Section C: War Apologies

Jennifer Lind
Jennifer Lind, “Memory, Apology, and International Reconciliation,” The
Asia-Pacific Journal 8.47.7, November 21, 2008.
Alexis Dudden
Alexis Dudden, “Memories and Aporias in the Japan-Korea Relationship,”
The Asia-Pacific Journal 10.14.3, April 5, 2010.
Wada Haruki
Wada Haruki, “The Comfort Women, the Asian Women’s Fund and the
Digital Museum,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, February 1, 2008.
Mark E. Caprio
Mark E. Caprio, “Neo-Nationalist Interpretations of Japan’s Annexation of
Korea: The Colonization Debate in Japan and South Korea,” The AsiaPacific Journal 10.44.4, November 1, 2010.

Section D: The History Textbook Controversy

Yoshiko NOZAKI and Mark Selden
Yoshiko Nozaki and Mark Selden, “Japanese Textbook Controversies,
Nationalism, and Historical Memory: Intra- and Inter-national Conflicts,”
The Asia-Pacific Journal 9.24.5, June 15, 2009.
NAKAJIMA Takeshi
Nakajima Takeshi, “The Tokyo Tribunal, Justice Pal and the Revisionist
Distortion of History,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 9.44.3, October 31, 2011.
Mikyoung KIM
Mikyoung Kim, “Myth and Fact in Northeast Asia’s History Textbook
Controversies,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, August 15, 2008.
Takashi YOSHIDA
Takashi Yoshida, “The Nanjing Massacre. Changing Contours of History
and Memory in Japan, China, and the U.S.,” The Asia-Pacific Journal,
December 19, 2006.

Part 3: Sites of Japanese Memory: Museums, Memorials, Commemoration

Section A: Yasukuni Shrine, its War Museum, and other World War II Museums

TAKAHASHI Tetsuya
Takahashi Tetsuya, “The National Politics of the Yasukuni Shrine.” Trans.
Philip Seaton. Nationalisms in Japan. Ed. Naoko Shimazu. New York:
Routledge, 2006. 155-80.
John Breen
John Breen, “Yasukuni Shrine: Ritual and Memory,” The Asia-Pacific
Journal, June 3, 2005.
Mark Selden
Mark Selden, “Japan, the United States and Yasukuni Nationalism: War,
Historical Memory and the Future of the Asia Pacific,” The Asia-Pacific
Journal, September 10, 2008.
WAKAMIYA Yoshibumi and WATANABE Tsuneo
Wakamiya Yoshibumi and Watanabe Tsuneo, “Yomiuri and Asahi Editors
Call for a National Memorial to Replace Yasukuni,” The Asia-Pacific
Journal, February 14, 2006.
Takashi Yoshida
Takashi Yoshida, “Revising the Past, Complicating the Future: The
Yushukan War Museum in Modern Japanese History,” The Asia-Pacific
Journal, December 2, 2007.
Kirk A. Denton
Denton, Kirk A. “Heroic Resistance and Victims of Atrocity: Negotiating
the Memory of Japanese Imperialism in Chinese Museums.” Reenvisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective
Memories in Reform China. Ed. Ching Kwan Lee and Guobin Yang.
Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2007. 245-86.
Jeff Kingston
Jeff Kingston, “Nanjing’s Massacre Memorial: Renovating War Memory in
Nanjing and Tokyo,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, August 22, 2008.
Section B: Kamikaze and Mass Suicide
James L. Huffman
James L. Huffman, “Challenging Kamikaze Stereotypes: ‘Wings of Defeat’
on the Silver Screen,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, n.d. 
Yuki Tanaka
Yuki Tanaka, “The Songs of Nippon, the Yamato Museum and the
Inculcation of Japanese Nationalism,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, May 8,
2008.
ANIYA Masaaki
Aniya Masaaki, “Compulsory Mass Suicide, the Battle of Okinawa, and
Japan's Textbook Controversy,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, January 6, 2008.
Mark Ealey
Mark Ealey, “The Martyrdom: Children and the Battle of Okinawa,” The
Asia-Pacific Journal, November 6, 2005

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