Introduction

History and Memory

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 117-126

  Sand, Jordan ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; JAPAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEMORY; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAPE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOLDIER; WAR; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

HISTORIOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; JAPAN; MEMORY; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PROSTITUTION; RAPE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 20744437846     PISSN: 0935560X     EISSN: 15271994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/ham.2005.0005     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. There is now considerable literature on the comfort women system available in English. For recent bibliography, along with articles on the comfort women and the historiographic controversy, see the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 30, no. 2(Apr.-June 1998), special issue, Textbook Nationalism, Citizenship, and War: Comparative Perspectives (hereafter Textbook Nationalism).
2. Gavan McCormack, The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence (Armonk, NY, and London, 1996), 227, 229. Hashimoto went on to become prime minister in 1996.
3. Nozaki Yoshiko and Inokuchi Hiromitsu, "Japanese Education, Nationalism, and Ienaga Saburo's Court Challenges", Textbook Nationalism, 37-46.
4. For a wide-ranging discussion of the Japanese handling of war responsibility and further information on Ienaga Saburo's court battles, see Ian Buruma, The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan (New York, 1995).
5. Gavan McCormack, "The Japanese Movement to 'Correct' History", Textbook Nationalism, 20.
6. The most successful publications have been the best-selling book series Kyo¯kasho ga oshienai rekishi (What the history books don't teach you) and cartoonist Kobayashi Yoshinori's long-running series Go¯manizumu sengen (meaning something like "A Declaration of Arrogance"). For an analysis of the packaging of Kyokasho ga oshienai rekishi, see Aaron Gerow, "Consuming Asia, Consuming Japan: The New Neonationalist Revisionism in Japan", Textbook Nationalism, 30-32.
7. Irie Yoshimasa, "The History of the Textbook Controversy", Japan Echo 24, no. 3 (Aug. 1997).
8. Tawara Yoshifumi, Dokyumento: "Ianfu" mondai to kyokasho kogeki (Documentary: The "comfort women" issue and the textbook attacks) (Tokyo, 1997).
9. While the group persists in claiming the label "liberalist", ironically the official English-language name is "Japanese Institute for Orthodox History Education. " Laura Hein and Mark Selden, "Learning Citizenship from the Past: Textbook Nationalism, Global Context, and Social Change", Textbook Nationalism, 9.
10. Dokyumento, 315, 319.
11. Inoue Sumio, "Uyoku seiryoku no kyokasho kogeki ni kan suru ryaku nenpyo" (A brief chronology regarding the right-wing attack on textbooks), Inpakushon (Tokyo), no. 102(Apr. 1997):142.
12. The year 1997 may have been the peak, however. As of August of that year, local assemblies were considering 28 petitions opposing textbook references to the comfort women and 231 petitions favoring them. Nakamura Masanori, "The History Textbook Controversy and Nationalism", Textbook Nationalism, 28.
13. A particularly significant collection of theoretical essays is Saul Friedländer, ed., Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the "Final Solution" (Cambridge, MA, 1992).
14. For a brief review of some of the arguments around Holocaust revisionism, see Alex Callinicos, Theories and Narratives: Reflections on the Philosophy of History (Cambridge, 1995), 65-75.
15. Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (New York, 1988).
16. The position against the "debate method" is laid out in theoretical terms by Ikeda Kumiko in Usami Hiroshi and Ikeda Kumiko, "Kingendai shi no jugyo¯ kaikaku" hihan (A critique of "Reforms in Modern History Teaching") (Tokyo, 1997), 140-71.
17. As reflected, for example, in Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (New York, 1997).