Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering
Japanin the Modern World. By John Dower.
《淡忘之道,铭记之途:现代日本》,约翰道尔著。
As the ghosts of the Pacific war judder back to life inAsia, it seems appropriate to consider how nationstates remember, and misremember, the past. Japan s current tiffs with its neighbours,China and South Korea, are rooted in the march to war and its undigested aftermath, morethan 75 years ago. They are inflamed, however, by different narratives of history, and bynational media coverage that is often parochial and amnesiac.
近日,太平洋地区发生战争的阴霾再次笼罩着亚洲。现在来思考民族国家是如何铭记及误记历史的,似乎正是时候。日本最近和中韩两个邻国之间起了种种争执,这都源于75年多以前发动的那场战争和它所带来的尚未平复的创伤。然而,各国对历史的记述不同,国家媒体的报道也往往狭隘而有所回避。因此,这些争执被激化了。
Conflict and memory are the themes that animate this new collection of essays by JohnDower, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning Embracing Defeat , which looked at Japanafter the second world war. Mr Dower is particularly interested in Japan s sanitisation of itsmilitary past, but also the way history in general is often a tool used by the powerful.
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