Memories of the War and Japanese “Historical Amnesia”

Shibata, Ria

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“…According to social identity theory (Tajfel and Turner 1986), individuals are motivated to perceive their in-group favourably. Because historical memory is the essential core of a group's identity, perpetrator groups may avoid remembering their past in any way that threatens their moral identity and places them in shame (Volkan 2001;Baumeister and Hastings 1997;Shibata 2017). Studies have also shown that groups in conflict often have disparate interpretations of shared histories and distinct narratives attached to those histories.…”

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Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan–Korea Relations

Sakamoto

Epstein

2020

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This book presents essays exploring the ways in which popular culture reflects and engenders ongoing changes in Japan-Korea relations.Through a broad temporal coverage from the colonial period to the contemporary, the book's chapters analyse the often contradictory roles that popular culture has played in either promoting or impeding nationalisms, regional conflict and reconciliations between Japan and Korea. Its contributors link several key areas of interest in East Asian Studies, including conflicts over historical memories and cultural production, grassroots challenges to state ideology, and the consequences of digital technology in Japan and South Korea.Taking recent discourse on Japan and South Korea as popular cultural superpowers further, this book expands its focus from mainstream entertainment media to the lived experience of daily life, in which sentiments and perceptions of the "popular" are formed. It will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese and Korean studies, as well as film studies, media studies and cultural studies more widely.Rumi Sakamoto is Senior Lecturer in Japanese at the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics, the University of Auckland, and is convenor of Asian Studies, Chinese, Japanese and Korean programmes. She has published widely on Japanese popular culture, nationalism and war memory. She is a co-editor of Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan (Routledge, 2006) and Japanese Popular Culture (Routledge, 2014). Her current research looks at cultural representations of kamikaze pilots and self-defence forces in post-war Japan.

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Section: Identity and Collective Memorymentioning

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Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan–Korea Relations

Sakamoto

Epstein

2020

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“…Extreme nationalists who identify strongly with the ingroup are motivated to maintain the prestige of the nation by instrumentally rewriting, distorting and manipulating historical narratives (Baumeister & Hastings 1997;Hammack 2008). This is why groups in conflict often have conflicting interpretations of the same history and distinct narratives attached to those histories (Shibata 2017). Collective amnesia or forgetting of an immoral past can be viewed as the perpetrator group's strategic decision to defend its group's pride and esteem (Volpato & Licata 2010).…”

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Identity, Nationalism and Threats to Northeast Asia Peace

Shibata

2018

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

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The escalating public debate over amendment of the Japanese constitution centres on the war-renouncing principles of Article 9 — the symbol of Japan's pacifist identity. Since elected to power, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his supporters have been steadfastly pushing to revise the constitution to remove pacifist constraints on the nation's Self-Defense Forces. In the face of growing insecurities generated by long economic stagnation, regional threats posed by North Korean missiles and rising Chinese hegemony, Japanese conservative politicians feel it is time to overhaul Japan's humiliating postwar regime represented by the pacifist constitution and restore Japan's pride and independence. This article examines the resurgence of nationalist discourse in Japan as a response to Japan's threatened identity and esteem. As the Japanese people become increasingly exposed to nationalist narratives and realistic threats, how have these affected their desire to maintain a pacifist identity? This paper further examines the pacifist attitudes of today's Japanese youth and to what extent they are in favour of changing the constitution to adopt a stronger military defence.

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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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Memories of the War and Japanese “Historical Amnesia”

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Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan–Korea Relations

Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan–Korea Relations

Identity, Nationalism and Threats to Northeast Asia Peace

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

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