Meanwhile, the authors' antidote to the American sicknessa quest for democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditionshas contributed to a vigorous scholarly and popular debate. Attention has been focused on forms of social organization, be it civil society, democratic communitarianism, or associative democracy, that can humanize the market and the administrative state. In their new Introduction the authors relate the argument of their book both to the current realities of American society and to the growing debate about the country's future. With this new edition one of the most influential books of recent times takes on a new immediacy.\

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

Chapter seven covers historical institutionalism (HI), a new approach to international institutions that embraces overtly temporal themes like sequence, path dependence, critical junctures, legacy effects, and the importance of “founding moments.” While historical institutionalists make great strides in setting institutions in motion, this chapter argues that they remain trapped by the problem of Time tradition and moreover that timing theory can help them escape. After summarizing the rise of HI against sociological and especially rationalist treatments, it uses HI accounts of institutions of the “liberal international order” to clarify the role and status of “history” in HI, to show how HI recapitulates and narratively confronts the problem of Time, and to argue that historical institutionalists unintentionally position themselves as horologists who explain institutional faults without challenging the rationalist baseline assumption that institutions should work like near-perfect cooperation mechanisms. This depoliticizes HI and hamstrings its efforts to develop a distinctive theory of institutions. However, timing theory can help by recasting institutions as collective timing projects and by embracing a more realistic view of international-institutional possibility. In turn, HI can push several concepts and insights of timing theory further, opening the possibility not only of a more thoroughly temporal account of institutions but an institutionalist perspective on timing.

Historical Institutionalism: From Pathological to Temporal Institutions

This article examines historical transformations of Japanese collective memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by utilizing a theoretical framework that combines a model of reiterated problem solving and a theory of cultural trauma. I illustrate how the event of the nuclear fallout in March 1954 allowed actors to consolidate previously fragmented commemorative practices into a master frame to define the postwar Japanese identity in terms of transnational commemoration of “Hiroshima.” I also show that nationalization of trauma of “Hiroshima” involved a shift from pity to sympathy in structures of feeling about the event. This historical study suggests that a reiterated problem-solving approach can be efficacious in analyzing how construction of national memory of a traumatic event connects with the recurrent reworking of national identity, on the one hand, and how a theory of cultural trauma can be helpful in exploring a synthesis of psychological and sociological approaches to commemoration of a trauma...

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Reiterated Commemoration: Hiroshima as National Trauma*

The Oxford Companion to American Military History. Ed. by John Whiteclay Chambers II, Fred Anderson, Lynn Eden, Joseph T. Glat-thaar, Ronald H. Spector, and G. Kurt Piehler. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxxiv, 916 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-19-507198-0.)

Introduction Part I: Domestic Trauma and Prospects of Reconciliation 1. The Changing Circle of Alliance and the National Day Parade in China Tim F. Liao and Libin Zhang 2. Cacophonous Memories: Revision of the Official Narrative on the War of Resistance against Japan in Post-Mao China and its Limitations Rui Gao 3. Memory and Reconciliation in Post-Mao China, 1976-1982 Bin Xu 4. Memory and Others: Japan's Mnemonic Turn in the 1990s Kazuya Fukuoka 5. Reconciliation Prospects and Divided War Memories in Japan: An Analysis of Major Newspapers on the Comfort Women Issue Shunichi Takekawa 6. (In)visible Women: Gendering of Popular War Memories through the Narrative of the Battleship Yamato for Six Decades in Postwar Japan Kaori Yoshida 7. Memory Wars and Prospects for Reconciliation in South Korea Don Baker 8. Tracing Memories of Tauchi Chizuko: Korean Memories of Historical Shame and the "Japanese Mother of Korean War Orphans" Mikyoung Kim 9. Critical Assessments of the South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission Dong-Choon Kim 10. On Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Korean "Collaborators" of Japanese Colonialism Jeong-Chul Kim Part II: Bilateral Conflicts and Lessons of Reconciliation 11. People's Diplomacy: The Japan-China Friendship Association and Critical War Memory in the 1950s Franziska Seraphim 12. Troubled Seas: Japan's Pacific and East China Sea Domains and Claims Gavan McCormack 13. The Role of Compensation in Sino-Japanese Reconciliation: Compensation as a Means to Restore Justice Ja-hyun Chun 14. Reconciliation and the Goguryeo/Gaogouli Disputes between China and South Korea David Hundt and Baogang He 15. Manchuria: An Imagined Space for Emancipation, Conflict, and Reconciliation Sunyoung Park 16. Comfort Women Controversy and Its Implications for Japan-ROK Reconciliation Yangmo Ku 17. Korea-Japan Reconciliation and the Dokdo (Takeshima) Issue Seokwoo Lee and Hee Eun Lee 18. Transitional Justice, Reconciliation and Political Archivization: A Comparative Study of Commemoration in South Korea and Japan of the Jeju April 3 incident Sungman Koh 19. The Reparation Movement: Lingering Legacies of DPRK-Japan Collusion Tessa Morris-Suzuki 20. Semantic Approach for Inter-Korea Reconciliation: Reflection on Conceptual Division and Political Divergence Myoung-Kyu Park 21. Reuniting Families, Reframing the Korean War: Inter-Korean Reconciliation and Vernacular Memory Nan Kim Part III: East Asia's Challenges of Reconciliation 22. The San Francisco Peace Treaty and the Regional Conflicts: The Cold War Legacies Kimie Hara 23. Japanese Perceptions of Territorial Disputes and Its Implications for Reconciliation Mikyoung Kim 24. East Asia and Cosmopolitan Memory Hiro Saito 25. Divided Memories and Historical Reconciliation in East Asia Gi-Wook Shin 26. Historical Memory and Reconciliation in China's Relations with Its Neighbors Xiaoming Zhang Conclusion

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Routledge handbook of memory and reconciliation in East Asia

The Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo is arguably one of the most controversial lieux de memoire (sites of memory) in Asia. While the literature on the Yasukuni controversy has been growing, not much has been explored on the nature of Japanese public reactions to it. This study delves into Japanese public opinion during the Koizumi premiership (2001–2006) and reveals relatively coherent and structural, yet changing, public opinion on (1) the official Yasukuni visits by Prime Minister Koizumi, (2) the idea of building an alternative nonreligious national memorial, and (3) the anti-Japanese riots in China (and their ramifications on the understanding about the Yasukuni issue). Overall, the study highlights the observable gaps between Prime Minister Koizumi's Yasukuni policies and the underlying public perceptions of them, which also calls into question the conventional elite-led model of public opinion formation.

Memory, Nation, and National Commemoration of War Dead: A Study of Japanese Public Opinion on the Yasukuni Controversy

Collective Memory: Why Culture Matters

Memory wars in Asia still revolve around Japan. Much has been discussed on the so-called kyōkasho mondai (history textbook controversies), yet, not much has been explored on the domestic social function of history textbooks per se. Emphasizing creators of history narratives (and their production), the field tends to overlook the audience, or, receivers in the process. In this article, by referring to the original interviews with Japanese college students, I question the very assumption of the creator–receiver connection. How are history textbooks perceived as a source for promoting Japanese people’s underlying historical consciousness? How have they been utilized in schools? Are they useful? If so, how? If not, why? I argue that in the case of Japan, how people reflect upon history issues is not necessarily the function of school history textbooks as often assumed, making a strong case for the importance of receivers in the analysis of public discourse.

School History Textbooks and Historical Memories in Japan: A Study of Reception

The study of taken-for-granted nationalism has been bourgeoning in the last two decades. With Michael Billig's seminal thesis of banal nationalism, it is now more common to see those studies that focus on day-to-day unconscious flagging of national symbols in established (as opposed to new) nations. There are also studies that re-emphasize Durkheimian moments of collective effervescence through ecstatic events (such as the Olympics and the Soccer World Cup) that concretize national identities. By critically engaging with these concepts, this exploratory study delves into the nature of Japanese youth nationalism. What are the sources of their national pride? How proud are they? Or, not? How do the Japanese youth perceive the national symbols such as the national flag and how is it related to the sense of nation?

Between banality and effervescence?: a study of Japanese youth nationalism

Japan’s kyōkasho mondai (history textbook controversy) is at a crossroads. This article tries to exemplify it through the analysis of three issue areas at three levels (international, domes...

Japanese history textbook controversy at a crossroads?: joint history research, politicization of textbook adoption process, and apology fatigue in Japan

Kazuya Fukuoka

Papers

Memory, Nation, and National Commemoration of War Dead: A Study of Japanese Public Opinion on the Yasukuni Controversy

Collective Memory: Why Culture Matters

School History Textbooks and Historical Memories in Japan: A Study of Reception

Between banality and effervescence?: a study of Japanese youth nationalism

Japanese history textbook controversy at a crossroads?: joint history research, politicization of textbook adoption process, and apology fatigue in Japan