War Memory and Asia-Pacific International Relations

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Research meetings have been held every month since April 2002. Themes of guest speakers in those meetings are as followed : "On Research regarding War Memory" by Akira Iryie (Harvard University) ; "Memories on Atomic Bombs" by Kazumi Mizumoto (Hiroshima City University) ; "Memory of the Civil War and Realignment of American Society" by Yoshiyuki Takado (Hitotsubashi University) ; "Trauma and Testimony : Geopolitics of Symbol" by Naoko Miyaji (Hitotsubashi University) ; "A Piece of Examination of Justice in Regime Transition : A View Point of Memory/Oblivion and Forgiveness/Revenge" by Hiroyuki Tosa (Kobe University) ; and "De-politicization of Memory of the Vietnam War" by Marc Gallicchus (Vill.anova University).Osamu Ishii, Kenji Takita and Ryo Oshiba made a short research travel to the United States, China, and South Korea respectively during the three-year grant period. Ishii conducted research on war memories of Japanese-Americans and Chinese-Americans. Takita delivered a paper pre … More sentation under the title of "Memory of the Vietnam War and US diplomacy in Asia." Oshiba conducted research on the comparison between Japan and Korea regarding history textbooks. Professor Wookhee Shin (Seoul National University) and Professor Yoon Young O. (People's University of Korea). were invited to our research meeting and delivered papers on research in South Korea regarding history.We are preparing for publishing a book which reflects achievements of this research project. We witnessed, after the end of this research project, that Japan, China and South Korea has experienced a severe tension caused by the gap of history perceptions between people in the three countries, ranging from decision-making practitioners to grass-root citizens, therefore we particularly try to shed light on the current situation in the book. Additionally, Oshiba, Xiahua Ma and Wookhee Shin (Seoul National University) will organize a panel on "Sharing Historical Memory in Asia" and are planning to deliver paper presentations in the World International Studies Conference at Istanbul (August 24-27,2005). Less