Mobilizing Death in Imperial Japan

Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan's Unending Postwar (http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9456-978082 4846787.aspx) (University of Hawaii Press and Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, 2015) examines key moments in the one-and-a-half-century history of Yasukuni Shrine, beginning with its conceptualization in the late Tokugawa years and culminating in the political turmoil of the twenty-first century. I decided to write a book on the history of the Shrine for a seemingly counter-intuitive reason: there is too much attention on this monument-political attention, that is

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