War memory, nationalism and education in post-war Japan, 1945-2007
Subtitle: the Japanese history textbook controversy and Ienaga Saburo's court challenges
By: Yoshiko Nozaki.
Series: Routledge contemporary Japan series -- 20
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780415371476; 9780203098769
Subjects: Ienaga, Saburō, -- 1913--2002; Education and state -- Japan; Textbooks -- Censorship -- Japan; Japan -- History -- Textbooks; Japan -- History -- Study and teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Japans defeat, educational reform, and the Japanese national narrative and identity in the early postwar years, 1945-1965; title: The politics over education: oppositional forces and Ienaga Saburo's first and second textbook lawsuits, 1950s-1970s; title: Counter memories of the Asia-Pcific War: the struggle for recognition, the history controversy, and school textbooks in the 1970s; title: Ienaga Saburo's third lawsuit and strategic conjunctures: changing intra- and inter-national relations and the textbook controversy in the 1980s; title: What is historical fact?  Dispute over historical research and education in court; title: Court decisions on Ienaga Saburo's lawsuits and critical trends in history textbooks, the late 1980s-1997; title: Nationalism, democracy, and the textbook market: right-wing nationalist history textbook projects, 1982-2007; title: The Japanese history textbook controversy and the significance of Ienaga Saburo's textbook lawsuits.