Yasukuni Shrine : : History, Memory, and Japan's Unending Postwar / / Akiko Takenaka.
This is the first extensive English-language study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It explores the controversial shrine's role in waging war, promoting peace, honoring the dead, and, in particular, building Japan's modern national identity. It traces Yasukuni's history from its...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 10 black & white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. Mobilizing Death: Developing the Myth of Yasukuni
- Two. Institutionalizing Joy: Turning War into Spectacle at Yasukuni Shrine
- Threee. Networks of Grief and Pride: Yasukuni Shrine in Regional Japan
- Four. Institutionalizing Grief: Yasukuni Shrine and Total War
- Five. Who Has the Right to Mourn? Politics of Enshrinement at Yasukuni Shrine
- Six. Mobilizing Memories: Postmemorial Conservatism at Yasukuni Today
- Epilogue Contesting Memories: Yasukuni Shrine as a Countermonument
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index