1. GO256: Conflict in East Asia Professor Walter Hatch Colby College Case #2

2. “One would expect people to remember the past and imagine the future …. But what they more often do is imagine the past and remember the future.” -- Lewis Namier

3. And then fight over the difference

4. What is Imagined/Remembered 1895 1937

5. The Most Contentious Memories “Rape of Nanjing” Unit 731 Comfort Women

6. Nanjing Massacre

7. Massacre Museum

8. Yushukan

9. Unit 731

10. Has Japan shown contrition? Depends on whom you talk to

11. Japanese Apologies Nakasone (1985): regret “ultranationalism” “militarism” Hosokawa (1993): “sincere sympathy” “acts of agression” “intolerable pain and suffering” Maruyama (1995): deep remorse “tremendous damage and suffering”

12. Yasukuni Shrine

13. History Textbooks

14. Question: Why did China decide to make this an issue in 1980s?

15. Protests

16. The Snub China’s Vice-Premier Wu Yi Leaves Tokyo

17. The Burden of History Yasukuni Shrine