Japan and Reconciliation in Post-war Asia: The Murayama Statement and Its Implications

K. Togo

окт. 2012 г. · Springer

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Taking a comparative approach and bringing together perspectives from Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan, this volume considers former Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama's 1995 apology statement, the height of Japan's post-war apology, and examines its implications for memory, international relations, and reconciliation in Asia.

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THOMAS U. BERGER Associate professor, Department of International Relations, Boston University, US YOUNGSHIK D. BONG Senior research fellow and director of Foreign Policy Studies, Asian Institute for Policy Studies, Seoul, Korea KAZUHIKO TOGO Director of the Institute for World Affairs and professor of International Politics, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan RWEI-REN WU- Associate research fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan DAQING YANG Associate professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University, US