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Japan's Contested War Memories: The "Memory Rifts" in Historical Consciousness of World War II (review)

Japan's Contested War Memories: The "Memory Rifts" in Historical Consciousness of World War II... for understanding the complexity of war memory and the challenges facing any effort to put the past to rest. Reconciliation is not a process involving the simple binary of China and Japan but a multiplicity of wartime Chinas as well. At the same time, as much as this volume works toward breaking down the myth of a unitary Chinese experience, MacKinnon also warns against interpreting diversity as somehow diminishing the impact of the war on China as a whole. The legacy of the Second Sino-Japanese War in Chinese history remains extraordinary and its weight is in no way reduced by its complexity. Japan's Contested War Memories: The "Memory Rifts" in Historical Consciousness of World War II. By Philip A. Seaton. Routledge, London, 2007. xiii, 258 pages. $170.00. Reviewed by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi York University Philip A. Seaton, an associate professor of media and communications at Hokkaido University, is to be congratulated for producing a highly readable and well-organized monograph, commendable both for its message and its method. His book is of huge value for disabusing foreign, largely nonacademic, commentators of a widely shared and derisive myth: "the Japanese" suffer from historical amnesia except when wallowing in the self-pity http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Japanese Studies Society for Japanese Studies

Japan's Contested War Memories: The "Memory Rifts" in Historical Consciousness of World War II (review)

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for understanding the complexity of war memory and the challenges facing any effort to put the past to rest. Reconciliation is not a process involving the simple binary of China and Japan but a multiplicity of wartime Chinas as well. At the same time, as much as this volume works toward breaking down the myth of a unitary Chinese experience, MacKinnon also warns against interpreting diversity as somehow diminishing the impact of the war on China as a whole. The legacy of the Second Sino-Japanese War in Chinese history remains extraordinary and its weight is in no way reduced by its complexity. Japan's Contested War Memories: The "Memory Rifts" in Historical Consciousness of World War II. By Philip A. Seaton. Routledge, London, 2007. xiii, 258 pages. $170.00. Reviewed by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi York University Philip A. Seaton, an associate professor of media and communications at Hokkaido University, is to be congratulated for producing a highly readable and well-organized monograph, commendable both for its message and its method. His book is of huge value for disabusing foreign, largely nonacademic, commentators of a widely shared and derisive myth: "the Japanese" suffer from historical amnesia except when wallowing in the self-pity

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The Journal of Japanese Studies – Society for Japanese Studies

Published: Jan 15, 2009

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