| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s). Ed. by T. Fujitani, Geoffrey M. White, and Lisa Yoneyama. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. viii, 462 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0- 8223-2532-2. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8223- 2564-0.)

The study of how stakeholders battle over memory has become in the last decade or so a booming historical field. The Asia-Pacific War has been a particularly contentious topic; witness, for example, the recent Korean and Chinese diplomatic protests against Japanese history textbooks that whitewash atrocities committed by the Imperial Army. Perilous Memories both joins the fray and furthers our scholarly understanding of this particular, highly complex, "memory war." 1

The book grew out of a conference held in 1995 to commemorate the end of World War II. The international lineup of contributors includes historians, cultural theorists, sociologists, anthropologists, specialists in communication studies, political scientists, and activists. As is typical for this kind of collection, the essays vary greatly in style and are of uneven quality. All, however, have intellectual worth, and indeed a number of them are outstanding. . . .

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