5. Constructing a National Memory of War: War Museums in China, Japan, and the United States

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. I Memory’s Many Forms
6. 1. Remembering Pearl Harbor before September 11, 2001 15
7. II Policymakers and the Uses of Historical Memory
8. 2. The First Revisionists: Bonner Fellers, Herbert Hoover, and Japan’s Decision to Surrender 51
9. 3. History and Memory in Postwar U.S.-Japanese Relations 85
10. 4. Cold War Diplomacy and Memories of the Pacific War: A Comparison of the American and Japanese Cases 121
11. III Making Memory Concrete: Museums, Monuments, and Memorials
12. 5. Constructing a National Memory of War: War Museums in China, Japan, and the United States 155
13. 6. The Enola Gay and Contested Public Memory 201
14. 7. War Memories across the Pacific: Japanese Visitors at the Arizona Memorial 234
15. IV Transpacific Memories
16. 8. Memory and the Lost Found Relationship between Black Americans and Japan 9. 255
17. 9. Entangled Memories: China in American and Japanese Remembrances of World War II 287
18. Concluding Remarks 319
19. Contributors 329
20. Index 331