Thursday, April 28 12pm to 01:30pm
Columbia University – International Affairs Building Room 918
New York, NY 10027
WEAI will be hosting a special lecture and Q&A with the author of “Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar”. Professor Takenaka’s book offers the first extensive English-language study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It explores the controversial shrine’s role in waging war, promoting peace, honoring the dead, and, in particular, building Japan’s modern national identity. It traces Yasukuni’s history from its conceptualization in the final years of the Tokugawa period and Japan’s wars of imperialism to the present.
You can read the Q&A here: http://weai.columbia.edu
Lecture is free and open to the public. For information visit: http://weai.columbia.edu