Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan’s Past

Edited by John Breen

March, 2008
Cloth, 240 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70042-9
$45.00

Contents:

"The Yasukuni Shrine Problem in Sino-Japanese Relations: Facing a Stalemate" by Caroline Rose, University of Leeds; "A Religious Perspective on the Yasukuni Shrine Controversy" by Kevin Doak, Georgetown University; "Unlocking the Secrets of Yasukuni: A Chinese Perspective" by Wang Zhixin, Miyazaki University; "Plumbing the Depths: The Yasukuni Controversy in China" by Seki Hei, Japan-resident Chinese critic; "The Showa Emperor and the Yasukuni Shrine" by Takahashi Tetsuya, Tokyo University; "And Why Shouldn't the Prime Minister Worship at Yasukuni?" by Nitta Hitoshi, Kogakkan University; "Yasukuni and the Loss of Historical Memory" by John Breen, SOAS; "Pledge Fulfilled: the Japanese Media and Prime Minister Koizumi's Yasukuni Worship, 2001-6" by Phillip Seaton, Hokkaido University

Related Subjects

• Asian History
• East Asian Studies

About the Author

John Breen is senior lecturer in Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. With Mark Teeuwen, he has coedited Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami and coauthored A Brief History of Shinto.

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