Inherited Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asia (Paperback)

Part I:Introduction 1. ‘Inherited’ Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asian Context Jun-Hyeok Kwak & Melissa Nobles Part II: Theoretical Overview 2. Owning the Misdeeds of Japan’s Wartime Regime Farid Abdel-Nour 3. Historic injustice and the inheritance of rights and duties in East Asia Daniel Butt 4. Inherited Responsibility and the Challenge of Political ReconciliationErnesto Verdeja Part III: Historical Reconciliation in East Asia5. Historical Reconciliation in Southeast Asia: Notes from Singapore Tze M. Loo6. Remembering and Forgetting the War: Elite Mythmaking, Mass Reaction, and Sino-Japanese Relations Yinan He 7. Appropriating Defeat: Japan, America, and Eto Jun’s Historical ReconciliationsNaoyuki Umemori 8. "Comfort Women" and Japan’s National Responsibility: A Case Study in Reconciling Feminism and Nationalism Historical Reconciliation in ChinaRanjoo Herr 9. Captives of the Past: The Questions of Responsibility and Reconciliation in North Korea’s Narratives of the Korean War Balazs Szalontai