The power of memory in modern Japan / edited by Sven Saaler and Wolfgang Schwentker.

Due to their symbolic and iconographic meanings, expressions of ‘collective memory’ constitute the mental topography of a society and make a powerful contribution to its cultural, political and social identity. In Japan, the subject of ‘memory’ has prompted a huge response in recent years. Indeed, i...

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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Brill eBook titles 2010
Physical Description:1 online resource (394 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Memory in politics and international relations
  • pt. 2. Institutions of memory : memorials, museums, national heroes
  • pt. 3. Popular and intellectual representations of memory
  • pt. 4. Realms of memory : centre and periphery.