Apology and Forgiveness in East Asia

Shibata, Ria

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-54897-5_12

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“…Causing tensions between the two nations, the solutions for compensation remain incomplete in many cases ( Soble, 2013 ). However, it is a relatively less known issue to most Japanese ( Shibata, 2018 ) and thus is a suitable context in which to manipulate Koreans’ acceptance or rejection of Japanese apology. If the Japanese learn that Koreans accept the ingroup’s apology, they would release the need to justify the past wrongdoing and thus find less reason to derogate the outgroup in terms of HU.…”

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Apology and Its Acceptance: Perceived Reconciliatory Attitudes Reduce Outgroup Dehumanization

Jin

Park

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Based on real-life intergroup animosities originating from a historical conflict, the current study examined how the perceived stance of the outgroup about the conflict affects the dehumanization of the outgroup. In Study 1 (N = 120), Korean undergraduates attributed more human nature to the Japanese after reading an article that the Japanese government did (vs. refused to) issue an official apology for a historical wrong. In turn, the more human nature assigned to the Japanese predicted higher expectations about positive mutual relations in the future. Similarly, in Study 2 (N = 209), Japanese undergraduates attributed more human uniqueness to Koreans after reading an article that an official apology for a historical wrong from Japan was accepted (vs. rejected) by Koreans. The higher the perceived human uniqueness of Koreans was, the higher were the willingness to help and the expectations of a positive relationship in the future. The findings demonstrate how mutual dehumanization can be reduced as a result of the other side’s reconciliatory stances and can further contribute to improving intergroup relations.

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Section: Studymentioning

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Apology and Its Acceptance: Perceived Reconciliatory Attitudes Reduce Outgroup Dehumanization

Jin

Park

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…For example, in the context of the Northeast Asian problem-solving workshops, one recurring obstacle was the perception that Japan does not sincerely admit the atrocities committed during WWII. Even though Japan has apologized for its role in WWII, China and the Chinese participants did not believe that the apology was genuine, nor that Japan was genuine in its attempt at reconciliation (Clements, 2017;Shibata, 2017). While the Japanese academic participants were receptive towards this sentiment and were willing to acknowledge the past suffering caused by Japan, the military participants were quite opposed to that notion, especially during the first workshop.…”

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“…Secondly, once an agreement is reached, the Shared Collective Memory needs to be maintained, including aspects of the own group's wrongdoing. This leads to a potential third challenge, apology fatigue (Shibata, 2017).…”

Section: Potential Challenges Destabilizing the Cycle Of Warm Peacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Apology fatigue -Apology fatigue refers to one group's sense that they have apologized enough, linked to a feeling that there is "never enough", that the other group will never be satisfied with apologies uttered by the ingroup (Shibata, 2017). Thus, apology fatigue may draw groups back into a collective victimhood, not based on the victimization that occurred in the actual conflict, but victimization that has appeared during the conflict transformation process.…”

Section: Potential Challenges Destabilizing the Cycle Of Warm Peacementioning

confidence: 99%

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The long road from cold war to warm peace: Building shared collective memory through trust

Kappmeier

Mercy

2019

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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Conflict does not end when violence ceases. Societies faced with overcoming conflict are confronted with many obstacles in the long process of reconciliation as they move from cold war to warm peace. They have to bridge the divide of disparate collective memory while overcoming deep-rooted inter-group distrust. Disparate collective memories fuel the conflict by preserving hatred and distrust. We suggest that one step towards warm peace is the establishment of an overarching superordinate group memory, or Shared Collective Memory. Our paper introduces a theoretical reconciliation model that proposes three incremental reconciliation cycles to build a Shared Collective Memory through the parallel development of intergroup trust. It combines and expands on the existing conceptualizations of trust and of collective memory and provides a framework for future empirical research.

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The Construction of Cultural Identity: National Identity and Collective Forgetting in Japan-South Korea Relations

Shibata

2021

Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research

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Apology and Forgiveness in East Asia

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Apology and Its Acceptance: Perceived Reconciliatory Attitudes Reduce Outgroup Dehumanization

Apology and Its Acceptance: Perceived Reconciliatory Attitudes Reduce Outgroup Dehumanization

The long road from cold war to warm peace: Building shared collective memory through trust

The Construction of Cultural Identity: National Identity and Collective Forgetting in Japan-South Korea Relations

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