Local History and War Memories in Hokkaido (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

Hardcover, xxii + 222 pages, b&w illustrations in text, NOT ex-library. Limited signs of minor handling wear. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Introduction; Part I: Local War Memories in Hokkaido: 1. A Theory of Local War Memories / Philip A. Seaton [Defining Local; Local War Memories; Local Memories as Memories Possessing Mid-level Cultural Power; Hokkaido's War Experiences as Local History; Local History and Responsibility / Accountability; Conclusions] 2. Grand Narratives of Empire and Development / Philip A. Seaton [Japanese Empire, 1895-1945: A Critique; 6 Phases of Japanese Imperialism (Phase 1: the Seeds of Empire; Phase 2: Pre-modern Imperialism in Japan Near Overseas; Phase 3: Exploration and Delineating Borders; Phase 4: Gunboat Diplomacy and Expansionism; Phase 5: The Empire of Japan and the Great East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere; Phase 6: Decolonisation, Repatriation and Lingering Territorial Disputes); Grand Narratives of Empire and Memories of War; Grand Narrative of Hokkaido's Development; Conclusions] 3. Narratives of War in the Hokkaido Media / Philip A. Seaton [Histories of Hokkaido at War (Official Narratives; Military Histories); Testimonies of Ordinary People (Local Television; Hokkaido Shinbun (Doshin); Incidental War Memories of the Great Men and Women of Hokkaido; Other Testimony Collections); Conclusions]; Part II: Local History, Local Activism: 4. There Was a Raid in Sapporo, Too: Unearthing the History of Air Raids in Hokkaido / Tsuneko Hayashi [Introduction; Sapporo Air Raid (Eyewitness Accounts; Records of the Raid); Unearthing the Air Raids in Hokkaido (Wartime Accounts; Postwar Records; Recording the Air Raids in Hokkaido); Narrating the Sapporo Air Raid (City History; Testimony of the Bereaved Relatives; Education and Activism; Recording Air Raids and War Damage: The National Situation); Conclusions] 5. Local Hokkaido and National Memories of War Horses / Aaron Skabelund [Introduction; War and Horses; Horses and Hokkaido (Tokachi; Hidaka; Kushiro); Responsibility Discourses; War Horses and Local Memories] 6. Unearthing the History of Minshu in Hokkaido: The Case Study of the Okhotsk People's History Workshop / Hiroshi Oda [Introduction; Okhotsk People's History Workshop (Early Period; Chichibu Case and the Rediscovery of Inoue Denzo; Kusarizuka (Chain Mounds) and Prisoner Labour; Jomon Tunnel and Takobeya Labour; No-war Monument in Oketo: Korean and Chinese Forced Labour; Ainu People); Contextualizing War Memories; Minshu as a Reflexive Agent; Conclusions] 7. Unearthing Takobeya Labour in Hokkaido / Yohei Achira [People's History and the Establishment of Horukai; Takobeya Labour; Phase One: Unearthing Takobeya Labour; Phase Two: Pacific War Memories; Phase Three: Labour and War; Conclusions] Part III: Memories in Militarized Hokkaido: 8. Commemorating the War Dead at Hokkaido Gokoku Shrine / Philip A. Seaton [Introduction; Imperial Army Seventh Division and Hokkaido Gokoku Shrine; Gokoku Shrine Network; Local vs National Commemoration of the War Dead; Hokkaido Gokoku Shrine Controversy; Conclusions] 9. War Memory, Local History, Gender: Self-representation in Exhibitions of the Ground Self-defense Force / André Hertrich [Introduction; Overview of JSDF Public Relations Centres and Base Museums; Rikkun Land; Hokuchin Museum; Local History and Femininity in the Hokuchin Museum; Conclusions] 10. Building Snow Statues, Building Communities: The SDF and Hokkaido During the Early Cold War Decades / Aaron Skabelund [Introduction; A Picture Is Worth a 1000 Words: SDF Outreach; Anatomy of Dependence: the Economics of SDF Base Communities; Conclusion]; Epilogue; Index. …