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Book Announcement: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women”

Posted on September 11, 2022 by Paula

The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women” Sachiyo Tsukamoto The Politics of Trauma and Integrity uses the lenses of gender and trauma to tell the stories of narratives testified by two contrasting Japanese “comfort women” survivors. Through … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age

Posted on July 17, 2022 by Paula

Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age Edited by Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li Cultural Imprints draws on literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by or about the samurai to examine individual “imprints,” traces holding … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives

Posted on August 25, 2019 by Paula

Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives By Gwyn McClelland On 9th August 1945, the US dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Of the dead, approximately 8500 were Catholic Christians, representing over sixty percent of the community. … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: A Heritage of War

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Travis

The journal Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, invites submissions for the Fall 2019 issue. A HERITAGE OF WAR, CONFLICT, AND COMMEMORATION Guest Editor: William Chapman Sites … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Paula

The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia Saito, Hiro University of Hawaii Press, December 2016, 264pp. For more information, please visit http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9697-9780824856748.aspx. Seventy years have passed since the end of the Asia-Pacific War, yet Japan remains … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Paula

Akiko Hashimoto, The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan Oxford University Press 2015. cloth, paperback, and eBook. ISBN: 9780190239169 (paper) From the publisher: In The Long Defeat, Akiko Hashimoto explores the stakes of war memory in Japan after its … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Memories on the Move: Asian Connections

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Paula

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Vol. 42 No. 1 | March 2016 Call for Papers Memories on the Move: Asian Connections Deadline for Submissions: June 30, 2015 In the last ten years memory studies has experienced a gradual shift towards comparative, … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Memory, Moment, and Mobility in East Asia

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Paula

Call for papers: Memory, Moment, and Mobility in East Asia East Asian Languages and Cultures Graduate Student Conference University of Southern California April 11-12, 2015 Proposal Submission Deadline: November 30, 2014 The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World

Posted on September 23, 2012 by LM

http://thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1815 Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World Author: Dower, John W. Pub Date: Spring 2012 336 pages ISBN: 978-1-59558-618-6 Remembering and reconstructing the past inevitably involves forgetting—and nowhere more so than in the complex relationship … Continue reading →

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