Reconciling the past: Japan's wartime atrocities and the legacies of post-war narrative tensions between Japan, China and South Korea

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dc.contributor.advisorPrager, Carol A. L.
dc.contributor.authorSugama, Terence
dc.date.accessioned2005-08-16T17:27:18Z
dc.date.available2005-08-16T17:27:18Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.descriptionBibliography: p. 177-186en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis will examine the role of narrative in shaping the Japanese account of its war past in the lead-up to and throughout the Second World War and, specifically, Japanese atrocities and aggression directed against China, Korea and its nationals. It will argue that Japan has thus far been unable to definitively resolve those tensions within Japanese society and without, from the victims of atrocity in the People's Republic of China (China) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in forming a coherent wartime narrative that remembers both the horror of war for the Japanese and acknowledges the suffering of their victims. Further, this thesis contends that a meaningful engagement in acts of reconciliation, a tool of restorative justice, between Japan and victims in China and South Korea is both desirable and necessary in alleviating those tensions.
dc.format.extentvii, 186 leaves ; 30 cm.en
dc.identifier.citationSugama, T. (2004). Reconciling the past: Japan's wartime atrocities and the legacies of post-war narrative tensions between Japan, China and South Korea (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12643en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/12643
dc.identifier.isbn0612976726en
dc.identifier.lccAC1 .T484 2004 S845en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/42033
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
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dc.titleReconciling the past: Japan's wartime atrocities and the legacies of post-war narrative tensions between Japan, China and South Korea
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplinePolitical Science
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)
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ucalgary.thesis.accessionTheses Collection 58.002:Box 1540 520492057
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ucalgary.thesis.uarcreleaseyen
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