Japanese Memories of the Asia-Pacific War

This essay begins with three notable incidents of recent years, which are indicative of contemporary trends in the politics of war memory in Japan. The first is associated with the Abe administration's 2015 passage of the Collective Self Defense Bill: an interpretation of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which allows the Japanese Self Defense Forces to engage in military affairs when an ally of Japan is deemed to be under threat. The second is a part of the controversies on the "comfort women," the systematic sexual slavery conducted at military brothels, which was implemented and managed by the Japanese military and government during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-45). The third concerns a municipal museum dedicated to the local experience of the Asia-Pacific War

Asia pacific · Biology · Ethnology · History · Japanese History and Culture

• Formation of the Historical Memory of Asia-Pacific War 1931–1945 and the Problem of Its Description in School Textbooks in Modern Japan

  Open Access•A Nakorchevski•The World of the Orient•2018

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