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Japanese Textbook Controversies, Nationalism, and Historical Memory: Intra- and International Conflicts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Yoshiko Nozaki  and
Mark Selden
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Japan's neonationalists have launched three major attacks on school textbooks over the past half century. Centered on the treatment of colonialism and war, the attacks surfaced in 1955, the late 1970s, and the mid-1990s. The present study examines three moments in light of Japanese domestic as well as regional and global political contexts to gain insight into the persistent contention over colonialism and the Pacific War in historical memory and its refraction in textbook treatments.

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Part 2: Topics of Historical Memory in Japan
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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Special Issue S7: Course Reader No. 7. The Politics of Memory in Japan and East Asia , January 2013 , pp. 272 - 298
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