{"id":63219,"date":"2016-04-28T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=63219"},"modified":"2016-04-19T19:20:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T23:20:12","slug":"%e2%80%9cyasukuni-shrine-history-memory-and-japan%e2%80%99s-unending-postwar%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=63219","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan\u2019s Unending Postwar\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 28  12pm to 01:30pm<br \/>\nColumbia University &#8211; International Affairs Building Room 918<br \/>\nNew York, NY 10027<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Takenaka-Front-Cover.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[63219]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63220\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Takenaka-Front-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"422\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WEAI will be hosting a special lecture and Q&amp;A with the author of &#8220;Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan&#8217;s Unending Postwar&#8221;. Professor Takenaka\u2019s book offers the first extensive English-language study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It explores the controversial shrine\u2019s role in waging war, promoting peace, honoring the dead, and, in particular, building Japan\u2019s modern national identity. It traces Yasukuni\u2019s history from its conceptualization in the final years of the Tokugawa period and Japan\u2019s wars of imperialism to the present.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the Q&amp;A here: <a href=\"http:\/\/weai.columbia.edu\/weai-author-qa-akiko-takenaka-yasukini-shrine\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/weai.columbia.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lecture is free and open to the public. For information visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/weai.columbia.edu\/event\/yasukuni-shrine-history-memory-and-japans-unending-postwar\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/weai.columbia.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 28 12pm to 01:30pm Columbia University &#8211; International Affairs Building Room 918 New York, NY 10027<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63221,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63219\/revisions\/63221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}