Local History and War Memories in Hokkaido

ISBN-13: 9780815383925 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 236 str.

Opis

Using Japanese language sources presented for the first time in English and a number of local history case studies, this book offers a fascinating and little-known perspective on WWII. It combines a comprehensive theory of how war memories operate at the local level, explaining Hokkaido's pivotal role in Japanese imperial history.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I Local war memories in Hokkaido 1. A theory of local war memories 2. Grand narratives of empire and development 3. Narratives of war in the Hokkaido media Part II Local history, local activism 4. There was a raid in Sapporo, too: unearthing the history of air raids in Hokkaido 5. Local Hokkaido and national memories of war horses 6. Unearthing the history of minshū in Hokkaido: the case study of the Okhotsk People’s History Workshop 7. Unearthing takobeya labour in Hokkaido Part III Memories in militarized Hokkaido 8. Commemorating the war dead at Hokkaido Gokoku Shrine Philip A. Seaton 9. War memory, local history, gender: self-representation in exhibitions of the Ground Self-Defense Force 10. Building snow statues, building communities: the SDF and Hokkaido during the early Cold War decades. Epilogue

O autorze

Philip A. Seaton is a Professor in the International Student Center at Hokkaido University, Japan, where he is the convenor of the Modern Japanese Studies Program. He is the author of Japan’s Contested War Memories (Routledge, 2007), Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border (Routledge, 2015, co-edited with Svetlana Paichadze) and numerous articles on war and memory in Japan.