First published in 1997, this volume responds to attention in recent years which has been belatedly directed towards reviving World War II issues involving Japa

Japan's Contested War Memories is an important and significant book that explores the struggles within contemporary Japanese society to come to terms with Secon

Since the 1990s, questions of Japanese wartime conduct, apologies for aggression, and compensation to former victims of the country’s imperial policies, have

The controversy over official state-approved history textbooks in Japan, which omit or play down many episodes of Japan’s occupation of neighbouring countries