Dark Heritage in Contemporary Japan

This book examines civic activism to conserve dark heritage built by the colonial and wartime labor regime in contemporary Japan.

Autorentext

Jung-Sun Han is a professor at the College of International Studies, Korea University. Majoring in modern and contemporary Japanese history and culture, Han has worked on the interwar and wartime Japanese political thoughts and the JapanKorea relations via visual culture of modern Japan.

Inhalt

1. Prologue 2. Constructing the Empire Underground 3. Attaching Wartime Memories to Places 4. Making of the Heritage of Shame in the Name of Peace 5. Making of the Heritage of Resentment by Excavating Memories of Forced Labor 6. Epilogue