Legacies of World War II in South and East Asia / edited by David Koh Wee Hock.
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Papers originally presented at a Conference on World War II : Transient and Enduring Legacies for East and Southeast Asia 60 Years On, organized by ISEAS, Singapore on 4 August 2005. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Legacies of World War II in South and East Asia / edited by David Koh Wee Hock.
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Koh W. H., David (Wee Hock, David)
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English
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"Sixty years after the end of World War II, the political and social fallout from the War is alive and divisive, as scholars in this volume show. One example is how former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine prevented China, Japan and South Korea from sitting down together to talk about Northeast Asian integration, and wider Asian integration. Another example is the question of comfort women. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's statement - that there is no evidence that Japan's government or army forced women to work in military brothels during the War - appeared to go back on a 1993 apology for the comfort women. How such issues of history are dealt with by countries of this region has an effect on contemporary relations among the major powers contending for leadership in East Asia"--ISEAS Publications Unit.