Table of Contents -- 1 INTRODUCTION The Realms of Memory: Japan and Beyond -- Part 1 Memory in Politics and International Relations -- 2 For the Nation or for the People? History and Memory of the Nanjing Massacre in Japan -- 3 Japan's 'Comfort Women' and Historical Memory: The Neo-nationalist Counter-attack -- 4 Tokko- Zaidan: A Case Study of Institutional Japanese War Memorialization -- 5 Remembering the War Crimes Trial: The Tokyo Trial View of History -- 6 Historical Memory and Shiba Ryotaro: Remembering Russia, Creating Japan -- 7 Developing Memories: Alumni Newsletters in Japanese Development Assistance -- Part 2 Institutions of Memory: Memorials, Museums, National Heroes -- 8 Remodelling Public Space: the Fate of War Monuments, 1945-48 -- 9 The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and its Exhibition -- 10 A Usable Past? Historical Museums of the Self-Defence Forces and the Construction of Continuities -- 11 The New Image of Childhood in Japan During the Years 1945-49 and the Construction of a Japanese Collective Memory -- 12 Sato- Eisaku, Yasuoka Masahiro and the Re-establishment of 11 February as National Day: The Political Use of National Memory in Post-war Japan -- 13 How Did Saigo Takamori Become a National Hero After His Death? The Political Uses of Saigo's Figure and the Interpretation of Seikanron -- Part 3 Popular and Intellectual Representations of Memory -- 14 Literary Memories of the Pacific War - Fiction or Non-fiction? Some Criteria for Further Research on Japanese War Literature -- 15 The Nokorimono Mode: Remembering the Atomic Bomb in The Diary of Moriwaki Yoko -- 16 Becoming Insects: Imamura Shohei and the Entomology of Modernity -- 17 Memories of a Liberal, Liberalism of Memory: Tsuda Sokichi and a Few Things He Forgot to Mention -- Part 4 Realms of Memory - Centre and Periphery.

18 New Dimensions in Sino-Japanese Relations and the Memory of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 -- 19 Development for Preservation: Localizing Collective Memory in 1960s Kanazawa -- 20 The Remembrance of the 1871 Nakano Uprising in Takayama Village as a Contemporary Trauma in Village Life Today -- 21 History and the Construction of Collective Memory: Positivist Historiography in the Age of the Imperial Rescript on Education -- Index.