Yasukuni Shrine : history, memory, and Japan's unending postwar / Akiko Takenaka.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Takenaka, Akiko, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2015]
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Mobilizing death: developing the myth of Yasukuni
  • Institutionalizing joy: turning war into spectacle at Yasukuni Shrine
  • Networks of grief and pride: Yasukuni Shrine in regional Japan
  • Institutionalizing grief: Yasukuni Shrine and total war
  • Who has the right to mourn? Politics of enshrinement at Yasukuni Shrine
  • Mobilizing memories: postmemorial conservatism at Yasukuni today
  • Epilogue
  • Contesting memories: Yasukuni Shrine as a countermonument.