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Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
Akiko Takenaka
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| #901249 in Books | 2015-07-31 | 2015-07-31 | Original language:English | 9.00 x6.00 x.75l,1.40 | File type: PDF | 296 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| :-D|By Zangiku|an enormously enlightening & perfectly organized exposition of the many complicated facets of the "yasukuni problem," about which very few people, despite their strong opinions, have accurate understanding. we may remedy that here. the author skillfully untangles the many yasukuni threads historically, religiously & socially in a well written & fascinating stor||"Akiko Takenaka has done what no one else in the English-language literature has, namely, historicize Yasukuni Shrine from its pre-Meiji Restoration lineages to the present. In addition to generating considerable interest both within and beyond modern Ja
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 conceptualization in the final years of the Tokugawa period and Japan’s wars of imperialism to the present. Author Akiko Takenaka departs from existing scholarship...
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