Contents:Memory, scholarship and the study of Japan / Eyal Ben-Ari, Jan van Bremen, Tsu Yun Hui --
Monuments for the untimely dead or the objectification of social memory in Japan / Jan van Bremen --
Memorial monuments of interrupted lives in modern Japan: from ex post facto treatment to intensification devices / Nakamaki Hirochika --
Memorializing and remembering animals in Japan / Elmer Veldkamp --
Coincident events of rememberance, coexisting spaces of memory: the annual memorial rites at Yasukuni shrine / Eyal Ben-Ari --
Summer grasses: memory and the construction of landscape in Oku no Hosomichi / Scot Hislop --
What it sounds like to lose an empire: happy end and kinks / Michael Bourdaghs --
The Meiji restoration and the revival of ancient culture / Takagi Hiroshi --
Japan's living national treasures program: the paradox of remembering / Michele Bambling --
Remembering the wolf: the wolf reintroduction campaign in Japan / John Knight --
Preserving the memories of terror: Kōbe earthquake survivors as 'memory volunteers' / Thang Leng Leng --
The violent and the benign: How Kōbe remembers its rivers / Tsu Yun Hui --
Social memory and commemoration: some 'after the fact' thoughts / Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi.
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