Why has Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine become such a lightning rod for the memory wars in Japan about the Asia-Pacific War?  Akiko Takenaka, author of <a href='https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/yasukuni-shrine-history-memory-and-japans-unending-postwar/'>Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar</a>, helps us understand how the meaning of Yasukuni has changed over time and why it has become the nation’s most controversial memory site.

Why has Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine become such a lightning rod for the memory wars in Japan about the Asia-Pacific War? Akiko Takenaka, author of Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar, helps us understand how the meaning of Yasukuni has changed over time and why it has become the nation’s most controversial memory site.

Why has Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine become such a lightning rod for the memory wars in Japan about the Asia-Pacific War? &nbsp;Akiko Takenaka, author of <a href="https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/yasukuni-shrine-history-memory-and-japans-unending-postwar/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar</a>, helps us understand how the meaning of Yasukuni has changed over time and why it has become the nation’s most controversial memory site.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Yasukuni Shrine and Japan’s Memory of the Asia-Pacific War

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