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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 594–596.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Gerald Scott Iguchi Yasukuni, the War Dead, and the Struggle for Japan's Past . Edited by John Breen . New York : Columbia University Press , 2008 . xv , 202 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $26.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 John Breen's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 443–467.
Published: 01 May 2003
... . London : Verso . Antoni Klaus . 1988 . “ Yasukuni-Jinja and Folk Religion: The Problem of Vengeful Spirits .” Asian Folklore Studies 47 ( 1 ): 123 –36. Bell Catherine . 1992 . Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Bourdieu Pierre . 1991...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 856–857.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Mark Caprio The Historical Perceptions of Korea and Japan: Its Origins and Points of the Issues Concerning Dokdo-Takeshima, Yasukuni Shrine, Comfort Women, and Textbooks . Edited by Dae-Song Hyun . Paju Book City, ROK : Nanam , 2008 . 465 pp. $26.90 (used cloth); eBook: Google and Hathi...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 485–487.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., the author refers to University of Tokyo professor Takahashi Tetsuya, who points out that the neonationalist initiatives are attempting to restore the “triadic system” of the Meiji period: military, Yasukuni Shrine, and patriotic education (192). In part 2 of the book, Mullins looks at how...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 409–413.
Published: 01 May 2003
... of power, the legitimation of political rule, elite and popular perceptions of state authority, and the means of socializing subjects into accepting shared systems of meaning. J O H N NELSON'S article addresses the ways in which Japanese military war dead are commemorated at Yasukuni Shrine. He explores...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 213–215.
Published: 01 February 1997
... a number of other important issues: the relentless attempt by Liberal Democrats to legalize state support for the Yasukuni Shrine; the constitutionality of visits to this 214 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES shrine (which now enshrines class-A war-criminals) by Japanese prime ministers; the incestuous...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 784–785.
Published: 01 August 2020
... method of analysis works well for the most part, but there are places where the notion of mimetic nation needs elaboration. He might consider adding the component of civil religion to the metaphor of mimetic nation. Leaders of the Liberal Democratic Party privately make offerings to Yasukuni Shrine...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 1006–1007.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Satoshi's expositions of the great textbook controversies; Asano Toyomi's study of recent contested constructions of the history of Taiwan; Murai Ryōta's survey of the politics of historical commemoration in Japan, inevitably centering on the Yasukuni Shrine; Yang Zhihui's tracing of the war reparations...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 535–539.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., former prime minister Koizumi Junichiro's visits to Yasukuni Shrine, highlights this complex task. Due to previous Chinese criticism, a Japanese prime minister had not made an official visit to Yasukuni since 1985. In the intervening two decades, the shrine, with the backing of powerful domestic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 215–217.
Published: 01 February 1997
..., Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 215 and religion" (saisei itchi) of wartime Japan? Ironically and I hate to admit this myself Nakasone Yasuhiro may have been onto something when he showed up at Yasukuni with his basket of flowers, bowing (in an unorthodox way) before the spirits of the dead. Too...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 531–537.
Published: 01 August 2015
... in Japan, Korea, and China began working on common history textbooks. It seemed that East Asians, like Europeans, could finally put the war behind them and work toward building a cooperative regional community. But this moment of good will and shared memory did not last long. Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 243–247.
Published: 01 February 2014
... organizations to take charge of war memorialization, which was mirrored in the highly regionalized popular press's focus on “local heroes.” The feckless attempts of Yasukuni to make state Shintō a center of public remembrance at this time are artfully revealed in Shimazu's detailed examination of locally funded...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 693–711.
Published: 01 August 2018
... use of Korean “comfort women” during that time; visits by Japanese prime ministers and other high-ranking officials to the Yasukuni Shrine, where Japanese war criminals are memorialized; and, most visibly, the dispute over ownership of the Dokdo Islands. All of these issues are generally bundled...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 621–644.
Published: 01 August 2019
... ). Similarly, after Abe visited the Yasukuni Shrine in 2013, the US Embassy in Tokyo released a statement expressing “disappointment that Japan's leadership has taken an action that will exacerbate tensions with Japan's neighbors” (Oshima 2013 ). Every time the United States has commented on disputes, Japan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 251–252.
Published: 01 February 2008
... bombers and the role they play in Japan's national narrative; Ann Sherif paints a complex picture of the literary critic and public intellectual Etō Jun's defense of the Yasukuni Shrine and larger efforts to remember Japanese war dead in ways that have challenged the official narrative of shame...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 833–835.
Published: 01 August 2020
... for remilitarization, relations between the two countries deteriorated significantly. Particular flashpoints concerned the Japanese prime ministers’ visits to Yasukuni Shrine and disputes over claims to the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. Yet even through these years of tension, Japanese companies have maintained a quiet...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 828–829.
Published: 01 August 2020
... era), that issues of Japanese Empire—war responsibilities, territorial disputes, ‘comfort women,’ the Yasukuni Shrine, and so on—became contentious in the region's public sphere” (p. 20). The three main empirical chapters (chapters 2–4) carefully illustrate how anti-Japanism in the post–Cold War...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (3): 1098–1100.
Published: 01 August 2008
... memory of the war, the second half of the book locates topical questions concerning war memory and commemoration within recent debates over whether the government has extended an adequate apology for the war and the extent to which commemorations at Yasukuni Shrine exaggerate or reflect public opinion...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (1): 218–219.
Published: 01 February 1994
... imply advocacy of a limited constitutional monarchy. Large's portrait of Hirohito in the postwar years is likewise a basically positive one, for even as he wisely warns against neo-nationalist usages of the emperor and other symbols such as the sun flag and Yasukuni Shrine, he accepts the legitimacy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (3): 1063–1064.
Published: 01 August 2002
... the spirit of the nation around symbolism of war memorialism focused on the Yasukuni Shrine. This pessimistic reading suggests new support for the kind of state monitoring of religion characteristic of the prewar period. Maekawa Michiko's "When Prophecy Fails: The Response of Aum Members to the Crisis...
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