East Asia's Haunted Present

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa is Professor of History and co-director of the Center for Cold War Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Northern Territories Dispute and Russo-Japanese Relations(winner of the Ohira Masayoshi Memorial Prize), Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan(winner of the Robert Ferrell Book Prize), and Anto: Sutarin, Toruman to Nihon kofuku (winner of the Yomiuru-Yoshino Sakuzo Prize and the Shiba Ryotaro Prize). Kazuhiko Togo is Visiting Professor of International Affairs at Seoul National University. He joined the Foreign Ministry of Japan in 1968 as a Sovietologist and served as the ambassador of Japan to the Netherlands. He has taught at the universities of Moscow, Tokyo, Leiden, Princeton, Tansui (Taiwan), and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Japan's Foreign Policy 1945-2003: The Quest for a Proactive Policy and The Inside Story of the Negotiations on the Northern Territory: Five Lost Windows of Opportunity (in Japanese). Ambassador Kazuhiko Togo is the grandson of the wartime Japanese foreign minister, Shigenori Togo, who is enshrined as one of the A-Class war criminals in Yasukuni Shrine.

Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction Tsuyoshi Hasegawa & Kazuhiko Togo Chapter 1 Dealing with Difficult Pasts: Japans History Problem from a Theoretical and Comparative Perspective Tomas Berger Chapter 2 East Asian Historical Issues in a Contemporary Light Golbert Rozman Chapter 3 Japans Historical Memory: Overcoming Polarization toward Synthesis Kazuhiko Togo Chapter 4 The History Textbook Issue in Japan and East Asia: Institutional Framework, Controversies and International Efforts for Common Histories Hiroshi Mitani Chapter 5 Myths, Milieu, and Facts: History Textbook Controversies in North East Asia Mikyoung Kim Chapter 6 Yasukuni and Japans International Relations Akihiko Tanaka Chapter 7 Comfort Women: Deep Polariza5tion in Japan on Facts and on Morality Kazuhiko Togo Chapter 8 Japans Neo-Nationalism and Chinas Response Jin Linbo Chapter 9 Japans Role in Chinas Nationalism Zhu Jianrong Chapter 10 Historical Memory and the Resurgence of Nationalism In Korea Park Cheol Hee Chapter 11 The United States and Reconciliation in East Asia David Straub Chapter 12 Russia and Historical Memories in East Asia Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Conclusion Kazuhiko Togo & Tsuyoshi Hasegawa