Sven Saaler

Eckhardt Fuchs

Tokushi Kasahara

For decades, historians and societal forces have campaigned for rapprochement, reconciliation and dialogue between East Asian nations. This book is a result of these efforts. Debates regarding the interpretation of the modern history of East Asia continue to affect bilateral relations between the states of the region. History education has become a particularly controversial issue in this context. This book’s main message is that a common understanding regarding the history of East Asia is possible, even though some differences remain. It is not only a major contribution to reconciliation in the region, but as the first textbook on the history of East Asia written collaboratively by scholars from three East Asian countries, it is also highly recommended for use in an anglophone teaching environment. The authors are a group of historians, teachers and concerned citizens from China, Japan and South Korea.

A New Modern History of East Asia

Men in Metal examines the public statuary of modern Japan as a central site of the nation's historical memory. This publication will shed light on how the elites of the nation-state constructed an iconography of national heroes that served their agenda of mass indoctrination.

A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan

Men in Metal

J. Victor Koschmann

Regionalism has played an increasingly important role in the changing international relations of East Asia in recent decades, with early signs of integration and growing regional cooperation. This in-depth volume analyzes various historical approaches to the construction of a regional order and a regional identity in East Asia. It explores the ideology of Pan-Asianism as a predecessor of contemporary Asian regionalism, which served as the basis for efforts at regional integration in East Asia, but also as a tool for legitimizing Japanese colonial rule. This mobilization of the Asian peoples occurred through a collective regional identity established from cohesive cultural factors such as language, religion, geography and race. In discussing Asian identity, the book succeeds in bringing historical perspective to bear on approaches to regional cooperation and integration, as well as analyzing various utilizations and manifestations of the pan-Asian ideology. Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History provides an illuminating and extensive account of the historical backgrounds of current debates surrounding Asian identity and essential information and analyses for anyone with an interest in history as well as Asian and Japanese studies.

Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders

Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History

Christopher W. A. Szpilman

Pan-Asianism has been an ideal of Asian solidarity, regional cooperation, and regional integration but also served to justify expansionism and aggression. As such, it has been a decisive factor in the history of Asia and the Pacific region. This groundbreaking collection brings seminal documents on Pan-Asianism to the Western reader for the first time. It includes some forty primary sources from the 1920s to the present.

A Documentary History, 1920–Present

Pan-Asianism

Wolfgang Schwentker

Due to their symbolic and iconographic meanings, expressions of ‘collective memory’ constitute the mental topography of a society and make a powerful contribution to its cultural, political and social identity. In Japan, the subject of ‘memory’ has prompted a huge response in recent years.

The Power of Memory in Modern Japan

The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History is a concise overview of modern Japanese history from the middle of the nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century. Written by a group of international historians, each an authority in his or her field, the book covers modern Japanese history in an accessible yet comprehensive manner. The subjects featured in the book range from the development of the political system and matters of international relations, to social and economic history and gender issues, to post-war discussions about modern Japan’s historical trajectory and its wartime past. Divided into thematic parts, the sections include: Nation, empire and borders Ideologies and the political system Economy and society Historical legacies and memory Each chapter outlines important historiographical debates and controversies, summarizes the latest developments in the field, and identifies research topics that have not yet received sufficient scholarly attention. As such, the book will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese history, Asian history and Asian Studies.

Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History

Pan-Asianism has been an ideal of Asian solidarity, regional cooperation, and regional integration but also served to justify expansionism and aggression. As such, it has been a decisive factor in the history of Asia and the Pacific region. This groundbreaking collection brings seminal documents on Pan-Asianism to the Western reader for the first time. It includes some fifty primary sources from 1850 to 1920.

A Documentary History, 1850–1920

Harald Conrad

"Wohnen in Japan" ist das Schwerpunktthema von Band 13 der Japanstudien. Wir erfahren darin sowohl etwas über den Zusammenhang zwischen Wohnformen und demographischem und sozialem Wandel als auch über Städteplanung, Bürgerbeteiligung und die Entwicklung der Wohnverhältnisse im historischen Längsschnitt durch das zwanzigste Jahrhundert. Fragen nach Tradition, Moderne und Avantgarde im japanischen Bauen werden ebenso angesprochen wie Stadtentwicklung, Wiederaufbau und die aktuelle Architekturdebatte. Mehrere Varia-Beiträge und ein besonders umfangreicher Rezensionsteil mit Besprechungen aus den Bereichen Stadtplanung, asiatische Geschichte, Volkswirtschaft, Populärkultur, Lexikographie, Fremdsprachenunterricht in Japan und Japanologie in Deutschland tun das ihre, um den Band um zusätzliche aktuelle und historische Akzente zu erweitern.

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