Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Domestic Trauma and Prospects of Reconciliation 1. The Changing Circle of Alliance and the National Day Parade in China 2. Cacophonous Memories: Revision of the Official Narrative on the War of Resistance against Japan in Post-Mao China and its Limitations 3. Memory and Reconciliation in Post-Mao China, 1976-1982 4. Memory and Others: Japan’s Mnemonic Turn in the 1990s 5. Reconciliation Prospects and Divided War Memories in Japan: An Analysis of Major Newspapers on the Comfort Women Issue 6. (In)visible Women: Gendering of Popular War Memories through the Narrative of the Battleship Yamato for Six Decades in Postwar Japan 7. Memory Wars and Prospects for Reconciliation in South Korea 8. Tracing Memories of Tauchi Chizuko: Korean Memories of Historical Shame and the "Japanese Mother of Korean War Orphans" 9. Critical Assessments of the South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission 10. On Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Korean "Collaborators" of Japanese Colonialism Part II: Bilateral Conflicts and Lessons of Reconciliation 11. People’s Diplomacy: The Japan-China Friendship Association and Critical War Memory in the 1950s 12. Troubled Seas: Japan’s Pacific and East China Sea Domains and Claims 13. The Role of Compensation in Sino-Japanese Reconciliation: Compensation as a Means to Restore Justice 14. Reconciliation and the Goguryeo/Gāogōulì Disputes between China and South Korea 15. Manchuria: An Imagined Space for Emancipation, Conflict, and Reconciliation 16. Comfort Women Controversy and Its Implications for Japan-ROK Reconciliation 17. Korea-Japan Reconciliation and the Dokdo (Takeshima) Issue 18. Transitional Justice, Reconciliation and Political Archivization: A Comparative Study of Commemoration in South Korea and Japan of the Jeju April 3 incident 19. The Reparation Movement: Lingering Legacies of DPRK-Japan Collusion 20. Semantic Approach for Inter-Korea Reconciliation: Reflection on Conceptual Division and Political Divergence 21. Reuniting Families, Reframing the Korean War: Inter-Korean Reconciliation and Vernacular Memory Part III: East Asia’s Challenges of Reconciliation 22. The San Francisco Peace Treaty and the Regional Conflicts: The Cold War Legacies 23. Japanese Perceptions of Territorial Disputes and Its Implications for Reconciliation 24. East Asia and Cosmopolitan Memory 25. Divided Memories and Historical Reconciliation in East Asia 26. Historical Memory and Reconciliation in China’s Relations with Its Neighbors Conclusion

About the Author

Mikyoung Kim is an Associate Professor at the Hiroshima City University - Hiroshima Peace Institute, Japan.