In The Unpredictability of the Past, an international group of
historians examines how collective memories of the Asia-Pacific War
continue to affect relations among China, Japan, and the United
States. The contributors are primarily concerned with the history
of international relations broadly conceived to encompass not only
governments but also nongovernmental groups and organizations that
influence the interactions of peoples across the Pacific. Taken
together, the essays provide a rich, multifaceted analysis of how
the dynamic interplay between past and present is manifest in
policymaking, popular culture, public commemorations, and other
arenas. The contributors interpret mass media sources, museum
displays, monuments, film, and literature, as well as the archival
sources traditionally used by historians. They explore how American
ideas about Japanese history shaped U.S. occupation policy
following Japan's surrender in 1945, and how memories of the
Asia-Pacific War influenced Washington and Tokyo policymakers'
reactions to the postwar rise of Soviet power. They investigate
topics from the resurgence of Pearl Harbor images in the U.S. media
in the decade before September 11, 2001, to the role of Chinese war
museums both within China and in Chinese-Japanese relations, and
from the controversy over the Smithsonian Institution's Enola Gay
exhibit to Japanese tourists' reactions to the USS Arizona memorial
at Pearl Harbor. One contributor traces how a narrative
commemorating African Americans' military service during World War
II eclipsed the history of their significant
early-twentieth-century appreciation of Japan as an ally in the
fight against white supremacy. Another looks at the growing
recognition and acknowledgment in both the United States and Japan
of the Chinese dimension of World War II. By focusing on how
memories of the Asia-Pacific War have been contested, imposed,
resisted, distorted, and revised, The Unpredictability of the Past
demonstrates the crucial role that interpretations of the past play
in the present. Contributors. Marc Gallicchio, Waldo Heinrichs,
Haruo Iguchi, Xiaohua Ma, Frank Ninkovich, Emily S. Rosenberg,
Takuya Sasaki, Yujin Yaguchi, Daqing Yang
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