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

Akiko Takenaka

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

Akiko Takenaka

296 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective relaxing medium-paced
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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. ...

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