Tokyo Review
All posts tagged "Pacific War"
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4.2KPoliticsLouder Than Bombs: Clashing Narratives of War Victimhood
Civilians killed in war are the subject of complex competing narratives - some promoted by parties as diverse as global superpowers and...
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7.2KPoliticsUntangling Yasukuni
The complex history of Yasukuni Shrine makes it an intractable problem for Japan's foreign relations; the uneasy compromise of senior politicians avoiding...
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16.5KSocietyThe Dark Side of Japan’s “Okinawa Boom”
There is probably some hypocrisy in discussing the appropriation of Okinawan culture from an Okinawan restaurant that has recently opened in a...