War memories across the Pacific

Japanese visitors at the Arizona Memorial

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4876480
AutoresYujin Yaguchi (0000-0002-3583-3032, The University of Tokyo, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen3
Número3
Páginas345-360
Fecha de publicación2005-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaComparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1177/1477570005055990
OpenAlexW1972068216
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas12

This article investigates Japanese visitors' experiences of the Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, based on results gained from fieldwork observations, questionnaires, and personal interviews. Japanese visitors tend to understand the memorial and interpret its significance quite differently from the majority of US visitors. Nonetheless, the memorial clearly functions as a site for enhancing national consciousness for Japanese as well as US visitors, as they become acutely aware of their difference from Americans and in so doing reconfirm their own sense of national identity. While the Japanese understanding of the memorial serves to de-Americanize the significance of one of the most recognized national landmarks in the United States, it simultaneously reinforces the site's function as a national memorial by crystallizing a sense of difference based on national identities and encouraging a historical understanding based on a nationalist framework

Archaeology · Consciousness · Media studies · National consciousness · National identity · Nationalism · Pearl · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies