China The Documents of Nanjing Massacre, Opening up UNESCO as a New Arena for History (Heritage) Wars July 11, 2018 0 Written by Ryoko Nakano. Competition over historical narratives is nothing new in East Asia. But it is increasingly expansive and transnational at a level in…
China Yasukuni Shrine and Japan’s War Responsibility September 8, 2015 1 Written by Akiko Takenaka. Yasukuni Shrine, where the military-related dead of modern Japan are memorialized, remains one of the main focal points in the international…
China The Abe Statement and the politics of war memory in Japan August 24, 2015 1 Written by Edward Vickers. Since the mid-1990s, successive Japanese premiers have issued expressions of regret for wartime aggression and colonialism. Nevertheless, anti-Japanese nationalism in China and…
