Contents
Foreword
Preface to the English Edition
Introduction: The Complexities of the Dispute over Historical Perception
PART I: THEORETICAL EXAMINATION
1. The Origins and Development of the Dispute
2. Historical Perception as a Standard of Value
3. History and Historical Perceptions
1. Generational Change
2. Changing International Relations
3. Economic Policies and the End of the Cold War
PART II: CASE STUDY 1: HISTORICAL DISPUTES IN THE 1980S
1. The Root of the Issue
2. South Korean and Chinese Responses
3. New Political Fluidity in Japan and South Korea
1. The Closing Days of the Cold War
2. Changing Japan-South Korea Relations
3. The Second Textbook Dispute in 1987
4. Emergence of the Nationalistic New Version of Japanese History
PART III: HISTORICAL PERCEPTION DISPUTE: CASE STUDY 2: THE COMFORT WOMEN ISSUE
1. From the Textbook Controversy to the Comfort Women Dispute
2. The First Katō Statement
3. The Miyazawa Visit
4. Insincere Apologies?
5. The Response of the Japanese Government
6. The Second Katō Statement
7. The Kōno Statement
8. From the Murayama Statement to the Asian Women's Fund
1. Changing Japanese Society
2. An Era of Populist Nationalism
3. The Historical Perception Dispute in an Era of Populist Nationalism
4. Deteriorating Bilateral Relations
1. Generational Change, Mutual Loss of Importance, Collapse of Cooperation between Ruling Elites
2. The Slow Collapse of the Cold War Regime
Afterword
Chronology of the Japan-South Korea Historical Perceptions Issue
Notes
Bibliography
Index