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050 00 $aBL2225.T62$bY3727 2008
082 00 $a299.5/6135$222
245 00 $aYasukuni, the war dead and the struggle for Japan's past /$cJohn Breen, editor.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$c2008.
300 $axv, 202 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aA Yasukuni genealogy / John Breen -- Stalemate: The Yasukuni Shrine problem in Sino- Japanese relations / Caroline Rose -- A religious perspective on the Yasukuni Shrine controversy / Kevin Doak -- China, Japan and the spell of Yasukuni / Wang Zhixin -- Plumbing the depths: the Yasukuni controversy in China / Seki Hei -- Legacies of empire: the Yasukuni Shrine controversy / Takahashi Tetsuya -- And why shouldn't the prime minister worship at Yasukuni? a personal view / Nitta Hitoshi -- Yasukuni and the loss of historical memory / John Breen -- Pledge fulfilled: Prime Minister Koizumi, Yasukuni and the Japanese media / Phillip Seaton.
520 $aLocated in the heart of Tokyo, Yasukuni is a controversial shrine dedicated to the Japanese war dead. It holds the remains of twelve convicted and two suspected Class A war criminals, and its museum features an account of Japan's involvement in the Second World War that many would describe as revisionist. Visits to Yasukuni by cabinet members often spark protests in Japan and abroad, especially in China, Korea, and Taiwan, and the shrine's existence continues to foster a sense of mistrust between the Chinese and Japanese governments. As the first authoritative volume in English on Yasukuni, John Breen has edited a book that neither commends nor condemns the monument. Instead it renders more complex an issue that, in the media at least, has been portrayed in starkly simplistic terms. Breen presents authoritative yet divergent views on the shrine and its place in postwar Japanese diplomacy, ideology, and history. Critical contributions are written by leading Yasukuni and anti-Yasukuni Japanese intellectuals, as well as Chinese and Western commentators. Yasukuni is a provocative symbol of Japan's nationalist past. With this book, English-speaking readers can now access a full portrait of the shrine's significance and its unique position in the highly contested history of Japan.
610 20 $aYasukuni Jinja (Tokyo, Japan)
650 0 $aShinto and politics.
700 1 $aBreen, John,$d1956-
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