| Description |
xv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Politics in Asia series
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Politics in Asia series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Coming to terms with the darker past in Korea -- 1. The Korean "comfort women" tragedy as structural violence / Chunghee Sarah Soh -- 2. The resignification of the "comfort women" through NGO trials / Hideko Mitsui -- 3. The politics of remembrance : the case of Korean forced laborers in the Second World War / Soon-won Park -- 4. The war against the "enemy within" : hidden massacres in the early stages of the Korean War / Dong-choon Kim -- 5. Justice incomplete : the remedies for the victims of Jeju April Third Incidents / Tae-Ung Baik -- 6. From Seoul to Saigon: Gook meets Charlie / Kyung-yoong Bay -- Part II. Toward a Northeast Asian approach to historical injustice? -- 7. The aesthetic construction of ethnic nationalism : war memorial museums in Korea and Japan / Hong Kal -- 8. Difficult neighbors : Japan and North Korea / Gavan McCormack -- 9. Dynamics of denial : responses to past atrocities in Germany, Turkey, and Japan / John Torpey -- 10. Pop culture, public memory, and Korean-Japanese relations / Chiho Sawada -- 11. A strong state, weak civil society and Cold War geopolitics : why Japan lags behind Europe in confronting a negative past / Andrew Horvat -- 12. Economic integration and reconciliation in Northeast Asia : possibilities and limitations / Wonhyuk Lim. |
| Provenance |
Gift of the Korea Foundation. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Korea.
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Korea (South) -- History.
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Korea (South) |
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History. |
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Korea (South) -- Relations -- Japan.
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Relations. |
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Japan. |
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Japan -- Relations -- Korea (South)
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| Added Author |
Shin, Gi-Wook.
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Park, Soon-Won, 1949-
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Yang, Daqing, 1964-
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| ISBN |
0415770939 hardback alkaline paper |
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0203967046 e-book |
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9780415770934 hardback alkaline paper |
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9780203967041 e-book |
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9780415474511 paperback |
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0415474515 paperback |
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