Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States. Asia and the Pacific.

This collection of essays focuses on textbook treatments of World War II in Japan, Germany, and the United States and gives readers a new perspective on the creation of national identities and international misunderstandings. Essays in the collection are: (1) "The Lessons of War, Global Power, and Social Change" (Laura Hein; Mark Selden); (2) "The Japanese Movement to 'Correct' History" (Gavan McCormack); (3) "Consuming Asia, Consuming Japan: The New Neonationalistic Revisionism in Japan" (Aaron Gerow); (4) "Japanese Education, Nationalism, and Ienaga Saburo's Textbook Lawsuits" (Nozaki Yoshiko; Inikuchi Hiromitsu); (5) "Identity and Transnationalization in German School Textbooks" (Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal); (6) "The Vietnam War in High School American History" (James W. Loewen); (7) "War Crimes and the Vietnamese People: American Representations and Silences" (David Hunt); (8) "The Continuing Legacy of Japanese Colonialism: The Japan-South Korea Joint Study Group on History Textbooks" (Kimijima Kazuhiko); (9) "The Power of Selective Tradition: Buchenwald Concentration Camp and Holocaust Education for Youth in the New Germany" (Gregory Wegner); and (10) "Teaching Democracy, Teaching War: American and Japanese Educators Teach the Pacific War" (Kathleen Woods Masalski). (BT)