Japanese Pacifism
Problematic Memory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20074842 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mikyoung Kim (0000-0003-4420-9642, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 53-70 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Northeast Asia's Difficult Past (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230277427_3 |
| OpenAlex | W2480110021 |
| ISBN | 9780230277427 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
A majority of the Japanese people pride themselves in being citizens of a "peaceful and industrialized country" that rose from "the ashes like a phoenix". As the primary source of Japan's national pride, pacifism needs to be situated within the unresolved entanglement of present glory and past shame. Post-war Japan emerged as an economic world power benefiting from a protective American occupation and, later, a working alliance. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on the other hand, became the historical precursor of its anti-nuclear pacifist sentiments. Somewhere between these two trajectories, the soul-searching of Japanese intellectuals caused by the troubling past has diminished in intensity.KeywordsNuclear WeaponAtomic BombLiberal Democratic PartyWorld PeacePearl HarborThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves
Alliance · Glory · Political science · Power (physics) · Pride · Shame · Soul · Theology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
The wages of guilt
Japanese Patterns of Behavior
Hiroshima TracesTime, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory
Memory, History, Forgetting
The Ethics of Memory
Haiboku o dakishimete
Cultural Norms and National Security
The Politics Of Social Protest
Conflict and Its Accommodation
Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History
Racing the Enemy
The Politics of Insurgency. the Farm Worker Movement in the 1960S
The Postwar Documentary Trace
Competing Publics
Exhibiting World War II in Japan and the United States since 1995
Entangled Memories
War and Apology
The Interpretation of Cultures
The Japanese Psyche
The Anatomy of Self
Living With the Bomb
Bodies of Memory
Writing Ground Zero
Beyond Belief
The Past in the Present
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |