Jun-Hyeok Kwak is Professor in the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University, China.Melissa Nobles is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science at MIT, USA.

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• Part I: Introduction 1. ‘Inherited’ Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asian Context Part II: Theoretical Overview 2. Owning the Misdeeds of Japan’s Wartime Regime 3. Historic injustice and the inheritance of rights and duties in East Asia 4. Inherited Responsibility and the Challenge of Political Reconciliation Part III: Historical Reconciliation in East Asia 5. Historical Reconciliation in Southeast Asia: Notes from Singapore 6. Remembering and Forgetting the War: Elite Mythmaking, Mass Reaction, and Sino-Japanese Relations 7. Appropriating Defeat: Japan, America, and Eto Jun’s Historical Reconciliations 8. "Comfort Women" and Japan’s National Responsibility: A Case Study in Reconciling Feminism and Nationalism Historical Reconciliation in China 9. Captives of the Past: The Questions of Responsibility and Reconciliation in North Korea’s Narratives of the Korean War

Jun-Hyeok Kwak is Professor in the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University, China.Melissa Nobles is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science at MIT, USA.

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• Part I: Introduction 1. ‘Inherited’ Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asian Context Part II: Theoretical Overview 2. Owning the Misdeeds of Japan’s Wartime Regime 3. Historic injustice and the inheritance of rights and duties in East Asia 4. Inherited Responsibility and the Challenge of Political Reconciliation Part III: Historical Reconciliation in East Asia 5. Historical Reconciliation in Southeast Asia: Notes from Singapore 6. Remembering and Forgetting the War: Elite Mythmaking, Mass Reaction, and Sino-Japanese Relations 7. Appropriating Defeat: Japan, America, and Eto Jun’s Historical Reconciliations 8. "Comfort Women" and Japan’s National Responsibility: A Case Study in Reconciling Feminism and Nationalism Historical Reconciliation in China 9. Captives of the Past: The Questions of Responsibility and Reconciliation in North Korea’s Narratives of the Korean War

Jun-Hyeok Kwak is Professor in the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University, China.Melissa Nobles is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science at MIT, USA.

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• Part I: Introduction 1. ‘Inherited’ Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asian Context Part II: Theoretical Overview 2. Owning the Misdeeds of Japan’s Wartime Regime 3. Historic injustice and the inheritance of rights and duties in East Asia 4. Inherited Responsibility and the Challenge of Political Reconciliation Part III: Historical Reconciliation in East Asia 5. Historical Reconciliation in Southeast Asia: Notes from Singapore 6. Remembering and Forgetting the War: Elite Mythmaking, Mass Reaction, and Sino-Japanese Relations 7. Appropriating Defeat: Japan, America, and Eto Jun’s Historical Reconciliations 8. "Comfort Women" and Japan’s National Responsibility: A Case Study in Reconciling Feminism and Nationalism Historical Reconciliation in China 9. Captives of the Past: The Questions of Responsibility and Reconciliation in North Korea’s Narratives of the Korean War