From cultures of war to cultures of peace : war and peace museums in Japan, China, and South Korea
Takashi Yoshida (Author)
"Takashi Yoshida provides a historical analysis of war and peace museums from the late nineteenth century to the present and traces the historical development of a pacifist discourse in postwar Japan that centered on Japan's war crimes and responsibility during the so-called Fifteen Year War, which began in 1931 with Japan's invasion of Manchuria and ended in 1945 with the nation's defeat. Prior to the defeat, a culture of war gripped the Japanese empire. Every segment of Japanese popular culture during the war bore witness to the flood of patriotism
Print Book, English, 2014
MerwinAsia, Portland, Maine, 2014