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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, honouring the dead, and, in particular, building Japan's modern national identity. It traces Yasukuni's history from its conceptualization in the final years of the Tokugawa period and Japan's wars of imperialism to the present.

Yasukuni Shrine History Memory and Japans

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      Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
      Publication Date: 9/30/2017 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780824873806, 978-0824873806
      ISBN10: 0824873807
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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, honouring the dead, and, in particular, building Japan's modern national identity. It traces Yasukuni's history from its conceptualization in the final years of the Tokugawa period and Japan's wars of imperialism to the present.

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