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The Dialectics of Remembrance: Memories of Empire in Cold War Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2013

Sebastian Conrad
Sebastian Conrad*
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Freie UniversitätBerlin
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sebastian.conrad@fu-berlin.de
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Abstract

Between 1895 and 1945 Japan assembled one of the largest empires in modern world history. It vanished abruptly in the summer of 1945 at the end of the Second World War, and seemed to leave no trace in public consciousness. Historians, too, have portrayed postwar Japan as characterized by a virtual erasure of the imperial past. This article draws on recent scholarship to argue that things were more complicated than that. While references to the imperial past indeed dwindled after about 1960, immediate forgetting did not exhaust the reactions by individuals and interest groups. Some social milieus experienced the dissolution of the empire much more profoundly than official discourse would suggest. Since the mid-1990s, Japan's imperial past has reemerged as a major field of historical inquiry and a more general concern in public debate. In this article I situate the dialectic of remembering and forgetting within larger processes and transformations of the postwar order in East Asia, in particular the American occupation and the emergence of the Cold War.

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , January 2014 , pp. 4 - 33
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