Imagining the Past: Memory Wars in Japan
In: Policy and society, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 143-153
ISSN: 1839-3373
This paper examines the ways in which Japanese nationalism is undergoing a shift from civic nationalism, based on separation of state and society, to a more organic statist nationalism, where state and society merge. It asserts that the "new nationalists" are engaged in a symbolic process of reconnecting the present to the past and by doing so, defending the nation's integrity