Dark Heritage in Contemporary Japan

Relics of an Underground Empire

Jung-Sun Han

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English

Routledge
13 May 2024

Museums & museology; Asian history; Cultural studies; Social groups

Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

This book examines civic activism to conserve dark heritage built by the colonial and wartime labor regime in contemporary Japan.

Introducing and analyzing local organizations and their activities in multiple locations throughout Japan, this book looks at the ways in which the Japanese have remembered, negotiated, and re-experienced their wartime past. Drawing insights from disciplines including critical heritage studies, social movements, the history of colonialism, imperialism, and decolonization, the book brings into focus the Japanese civic activism which confronts the legacies of the wartime labor regime operated throughout the colonial empire. By tracing the formation of grassroots movements to conserve war-related sites throughout Japan, it argues that reclaiming places for plural war memories bequeathed by colonial empire has been pivotal in creating public spaces for civic activism attentive to identities and differences in contemporary Japan.

Delving into the multilayered connections between the memories of imperial wars, colonial empire, and place-based politics in postwar Japan, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of colonialism, heritage studies and Japanese history.

By: Jung-Sun Han
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 470g
ISBN: 9781032583358
ISBN 10: 1032583355
Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 13 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Prologue 2. Constructing the Empire Underground 3. Attaching Wartime Memories to Places 4. Making of the Heritage of Shame in the Name of Peace 5. Making of the Heritage of Resentment by Excavating Memories of Forced Labor 6. Epilogue

Jung-Sun Han is a professor at the College of International Studies, Korea University. Majoring in modern and contemporary Japanese history and culture, Han has worked on the interwar and wartime Japanese political thoughts and the Japan–Korea relations via visual culture of modern Japan.

Reviews for Dark Heritage in Contemporary Japan: Relics of an Underground Empire

"""In this valuable contribution to our understanding of the formation of historical memory in Japan, Jung-Sun Han masterfully examines civic activism aimed at protecting and preserving war-related sites. This book is a must read for those seeking to understand how the imperial past is remembered in today's Japan, and the role of civil society in shaping and contesting this collective memory."" Alexander Bukh, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand “Dark Heritage in Contemporary Japan: Relics of an Underground Empire” is an important work. It is deeply grounded (literally and metaphorically) in an empirical examination of the wartime labor regime that forced Koreans to build military installations, especially in the final years of World War II. And it is brilliantly framed in theoretical engagement with fields of memory and heritage studies and dark tourism. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the longstanding and still evolving contention over colonial and wartime history both within Japan and between Japan and Korea, as well as all those interested in broader issues of war and memory.” Andrew Gordon, Harvard University, USA"