Franziska Seraphim
Biographic Data
| ID | 284520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franziska Seraphim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Franziska |
| FAMILY NAME | Seraphim |
| SIGNATURE | SERAPHIM F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Review
Barak Kushner, The Geography of Injustice
Readers of this journal know the Cold War as a global history that manifested differently around the world in a wide variety of local settings. But rarely is the superpower conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union so underplayed as in the book under review here, The Geography of Injustice, which details the ill-fated politics of justice in war-torn East Asia in the framing stages of the Cold War and beyond. Barak Kushner rightly in…
More than Medals
Reviewed by: More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan by Dennis J. Frost Franziska Seraphim (bio) More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan. By Dennis J. Frost. Cornell University Press, 2020. xiii, 311 pages. $39.95, cloth; $25.99, E-book. The Olympic Games are an unusually rich site for exploring the complex nature of our interconnected world from historica…
Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism
Since the adoption of the 1947 Constitution of Japan, the document has become a contested symbol of contrasting visions of Japan. Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism is a volume which examines the history of Japan’s constitutional debates, key legal decisions and interpretations, the history and variety of activism, and activists’ ties to party politics and to fellow activists overseas
Noriko Kawamura. Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War
A considerable amount of ink has been spilled over the question of why, if Emperor Hirohito had the power to stop the Pacific War on August 15, 1945, he had permitted it to start. Noriko Kawamura turns this question around to ask: “if, as we will see, the emperor could not stop Japan from going to war in the first place, how and why was he able to play a critical role in ending the war through his seidan [sacred intervention]?” (13) At the center…
Hanaoka Monogatari
When U.S. occupation forces liberated Allied POW camps in the Akita area in northern Japan in the early fall 1945, they came across piles of unburied dead bodies, mass graves, and a labor camp of emaciated Chinese men living in appalling conditions
A New Social History of Occupied Japan
In the introduction to his 1999 masterpiece on Japan under U.S. occupation, John Dower wrote, "It would be difficult to find another cross-cultural moment more intense, unpredictable, ambiguous, confusing, andelectricthan this one." Indeed, no other history of occupied Japan before or since has managed to capture, in such a cinematic way, what it meant to "start over" in 1945 after a devastating war and at the behest of the victor.Embracing Defea…
Negotiating War Legacies and Postwar Democracy in Japan
This article surveys the ongoing struggles over legacies of World War II within Japan's postwar history. As in Europe, different types of responsibility for the wartime past manifested themselves in changing international and domestic contexts and continuously redefined the relationships between victors, perpetrators of crimes, survivors, and a growing population for whom the war — and increasingly the postwar past — registered only as memory. Un…
People's Diplomacy
This article examines the place of Sino-Japanese relations in Japan's domestic struggles over war memory in the early 1950s, when the door to an official reconciliation with China had just closed following the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty. It focuses on the Japan-China Friendship Association as a lens through which to understand the role of civic organization in carving out a public space for memories of Japanese wartime aggression a…
War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945–2005
Long-anticipated and well worth the wait, Franziska Seraphim's War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005 fills a major gap in Japanese and political history that has long troubled students of Japan's Asian and Pacific War. Drawing on an impressive array of sources and demonstrating a deep understanding of the importance of both war experience and war in Japan since 1945, this book shows not only what Japanese have come to remember about …
Living With the Bomb
Hanaoka Monogatari
When U.S. occupation forces liberated Allied POW camps in the Akita area in northern Japan in the early fall 1945, they came across piles of unburied dead bodies, mass graves, and a labor camp of emaciated Chinese men living in appalling conditions
A New Social History of Occupied Japan
In the introduction to his 1999 masterpiece on Japan under U.S. occupation, John Dower wrote, "It would be difficult to find another cross-cultural moment more intense, unpredictable, ambiguous, confusing, andelectricthan this one." Indeed, no other history of occupied Japan before or since has managed to capture, in such a cinematic way, what it meant to "start over" in 1945 after a devastating war and at the behest of the victor.Embracing Defea…
Living With the Bomb
War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945–2005
Long-anticipated and well worth the wait, Franziska Seraphim's War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005 fills a major gap in Japanese and political history that has long troubled students of Japan's Asian and Pacific War. Drawing on an impressive array of sources and demonstrating a deep understanding of the importance of both war experience and war in Japan since 1945, this book shows not only what Japanese have come to remember about …
People's Diplomacy
This article examines the place of Sino-Japanese relations in Japan's domestic struggles over war memory in the early 1950s, when the door to an official reconciliation with China had just closed following the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty. It focuses on the Japan-China Friendship Association as a lens through which to understand the role of civic organization in carving out a public space for memories of Japanese wartime aggression a…
Negotiating War Legacies and Postwar Democracy in Japan
This article surveys the ongoing struggles over legacies of World War II within Japan's postwar history. As in Europe, different types of responsibility for the wartime past manifested themselves in changing international and domestic contexts and continuously redefined the relationships between victors, perpetrators of crimes, survivors, and a growing population for whom the war — and increasingly the postwar past — registered only as memory. Un…
A New Social History of Occupied Japan
In the introduction to his 1999 masterpiece on Japan under U.S. occupation, John Dower wrote, "It would be difficult to find another cross-cultural moment more intense, unpredictable, ambiguous, confusing, andelectricthan this one." Indeed, no other history of occupied Japan before or since has managed to capture, in such a cinematic way, what it meant to "start over" in 1945 after a devastating war and at the behest of the victor.Embracing Defea…
Hanaoka Monogatari
When U.S. occupation forces liberated Allied POW camps in the Akita area in northern Japan in the early fall 1945, they came across piles of unburied dead bodies, mass graves, and a labor camp of emaciated Chinese men living in appalling conditions
Noriko Kawamura. Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War
A considerable amount of ink has been spilled over the question of why, if Emperor Hirohito had the power to stop the Pacific War on August 15, 1945, he had permitted it to start. Noriko Kawamura turns this question around to ask: “if, as we will see, the emperor could not stop Japan from going to war in the first place, how and why was he able to play a critical role in ending the war through his seidan [sacred intervention]?” (13) At the center…
Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism
Since the adoption of the 1947 Constitution of Japan, the document has become a contested symbol of contrasting visions of Japan. Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism is a volume which examines the history of Japan’s constitutional debates, key legal decisions and interpretations, the history and variety of activism, and activists’ ties to party politics and to fellow activists overseas
More than Medals
Reviewed by: More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan by Dennis J. Frost Franziska Seraphim (bio) More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan. By Dennis J. Frost. Cornell University Press, 2020. xiii, 311 pages. $39.95, cloth; $25.99, E-book. The Olympic Games are an unusually rich site for exploring the complex nature of our interconnected world from historica…
Barak Kushner, The Geography of Injustice
Readers of this journal know the Cold War as a global history that manifested differently around the world in a wide variety of local settings. But rarely is the superpower conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union so underplayed as in the book under review here, The Geography of Injustice, which details the ill-fated politics of justice in war-torn East Asia in the framing stages of the Cold War and beyond. Barak Kushner rightly in…
Review
Political science (10 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (8 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works) · Economic history (3 works) · History (3 works)