Essays about: "yasukuni"

Found 2 essays containing the word yasukuni.

1. 1. The (inter)national self - negotiating the Japanese narrating China

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Anna-Karin Eriksson; [2009]
   Keywords : Japanese national identity; grounded theory; narrative analysis; routinised nationalism; Diet records; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Unpacking and reconstituting different aspects of the Japanese narrative on China within the context of the Yasukuni controversy between 2001 and 2006, this thesis concludes that the constitution of China is an inherent part of the negotiating processes of the “Japanese we”. With a methodological framework comprised of grounded theory and narrative analysis; in its merged form referred to as grounded narratology, a theoretical framework derived from the constitution of “threat”, “dependence” and “shame” dimensions of the narrative is put together. READ MORE

3. 2. Towards Becoming a "Normal Country". The History Issue and Sino-Japanese Relations in the Koizumi Era

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Kamila Szczepanska; [2007]
   Keywords : normal country ; history issue; state-centred patriotism in Japan; Koizumi Junichirô; Yasukuni Shrine; Sino-Japanese relations; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The presented thesis was devoted to exploring how the problems stemming from the unsettled wartime past between the People's Republic of China and Japan influence the latter's effort to become a "normal country". It was a nonexperimental study based mainly on secondary sources and enriched with the findings from qualitative semistructured interviews. READ MORE