Yasukuni Shrine : history, memory, and Japan's unending postwar /

This is the first extensive English-language study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It explores the controversial shrine's role in waging war, promoting peace, honoring the dead, and, in particular, building Japan's modern national identity. It traces Yasukuni's history from its...

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Author / Creator: Takenaka, Akiko, 1965- (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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