Place, Public Memory, and The Tokyo Air Raids

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ID4489869
AuthorsCary Karacas (Assistant professor of geography at the College of Staten Island, City University New York, Staten Island, New York 10314., corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume100
Issue4
Pages521-537
Publication date2010-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1931-0846.2010.00056.x
OpenAlexW1976947715
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited43

The one public memorial built to remember the many people killed in air raids directed against the civilian population of Tokyo during the Asia‐Pacific War bears traces of deeper stories related to a prior catastrophe, the effects of the U.S. occupation of Japan, war memory, political power at the municipal and national level, and the ability of citizens' groups to create public sites of exemplary memory. This article examines key chapters of those stories by tracing the dynamics of collective memory as related to the movement to remember the air raids and build a Tokyo Peace Museum. It concludes with an analysis of the existing memorial as a space of literal memory

Collective memory · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Politics of memory · Population · Power (physics · Sociology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Demography · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

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