Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan's Unending Postwar

by Akiko Takenaka

Book Overview

This is the first extensive English-language study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It explores the controversial shrine's role in waging war, promoting peace, honoring the dead, and, in particular, building Japan's modern national identity. It traces Yasukuni's history from its conceptualization in the final years of the Tokugawa period and Japan's wars of imperialism to the present. Author Akiko Takenaka departs from existing scholarship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824873807
• ISBN13: 9780824873806
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"