Yasukuni Shrine

History, Memory, and Japan's Unending Postwar

Bibliographic Data

ID19988073
AuthorsAkiko Takenaka (0000-0002-8517-5664, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages296
Publication date2015-07-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueYasukuni Shrine (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.21313/hawaii/9780824846787.001.0001
OpenAlexW4243277052
Open LibraryOL27508392M
ISBN9780824846787
LanguageEN
Citations received13

Yasukuni Shrine, a former national war memorial in which spirits of all Japanese military dead are commemorated, currently serves as the lightening rod for debates surrounding Japan’s legacies of the Asia-Pacific War (1931-45). Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar offers a departure from the existing scholarship that treat the shrine as a political problem by offering a study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It examines the shrine’s role in waging war, promoting peace, honoring the dead, and especially in building a modern national identity. Through a careful analysis of the shrine’s history from the inception of the idea of a collective war memorial in the mid-nineteenth century and through Japan’s wars of imperialism to the ongoing political problems in the present, this study examines the making and unmaking of a modern militaristic Japan through the lens of Yasukuni Shrine. It also considers the shrine within the context of memory studies—that is, in terms of the varying ways that contemporary Japanese remember the Asia-Pacific War. It is the first book-length scholarly analysis of Yasukuni Shrine in English

Ancient history · Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Economic history · Militarism · Military history · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Spanish Civil War · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Japan · Religion · Religion and state · Shinto · Shinto and state · Tokyo · War memorials · Yasukuni Jinja (Tokyo

Tools

Open DOI