February 6, 2017

"How Japanese politicians view their modern history is always a sensitive topic that is of concern to their Asian neighbors and the international community. On December 25, 2016, before his visit to Pearl Harbor, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe received an open letter from international scholars that questioned his reception of Japan’s modern history, especially on his view or definition of 'aggression.'

However, what I want to discuss in this essay is not the politicians' view but the general view, and how to consider the relationship between the general view in Japan, that of conservative politicians like Abe, and that of China, its most important neighbor. To achieve this goal, we need to review the Japanese modern history series published by Iwanami Shoten (the IWANAMI series)."

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