Northeast Asia's Difficult Past

Chapter 1 Introduction: Northeast Asia’s Memory Problem

Chapter 2 The Yasukuni Shrine Conundrum: Japan’s Contested Identity and Memory

Chapter 3 Japanese Pacifism: Problematic Memory

Chapter 4 Responsibility, Regret and Nationalism in Japanese Memory

Chapter 5 Political Centres, Progressive Narratives and Cultural Trauma: Coming to Terms with the Nanjing Massacre in China, 1937–1979

Chapter 6 Alternative Genres, New Media and Counter Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Chapter 7 The Changing Fate of the Chinese National Anthem

Chapter 8 Memory Movement and State-Society Relationship in Chinese World War II Victims’ Reparations Movement Against Japan

Chapter 9 Exacerbated Politics: The Legacy of Political Trauma in South Korea

Chapter 10 The Chosŏn Monarchy in Republican Korea, 1945–1965

Chapter 11 Parallax Visions in the Dokdo/Takeshima Disputes