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Divided Memories and Reconciliation
This project is a three year research effort to compare the formation of these divided memories in Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States.
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August 22nd, 2011
Conference compares wartime experiences in Asia and Europe
While differences exist in the wartime circumstances and reconciliation processes of Europe and Asia, many valuable lessons can be gained through a study of the experiences on both continents. The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center facilitated a comparative dialogue on World War Two, bringing together 15 noted experts for the Colonialism, Collaboration, and Criminality conference, held June 16 to 17 at Stanford. 
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February 14th, 2011
New publication aims to reconcile wartime memories
The countries of Northeast Asia and the United States share a twenty-year legacy of war, beginning with the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1931 until the formal conclusion of the Pacific War in 1951. Historical memories of this period are often conflicting, as reflected by the master narratives presented in textbooks, and serve to impede effective, lasting reconciliation. In its groundbreaking new publication History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia: Divided Memories (Routledge Press, 2011), edited by Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel Sneider, the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center examines the evolution of master narratives in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States in an effort to help lay the foundation for eventual historical reconciliation in the region. This is the first in a series of three books dealing with wartime memories and reconciliation.
September 15th, 2010
Japan's efforts to reconcile the past
in the news: Japan Real Time (Wall Street Journal) on September 13, 2010Japan’s government has created a new program to facilitate reconciliation efforts with soldiers that it held captive during WWII, recently inviting six former U.S. prisoners and their family members to Japan for an eight-day visit. As reconciliation efforts are met with mixed reactions, Daniel Sneider, Shorenstein APARC’s associate director for research and a member of the Divided Memories and Reconciliation research project, spoke with Japan Real Time about the need for Japan’s government to address specific past actions in order to successfully move forward with reconciling the past.
February 23rd, 2010
The weight of history rests on the slender shoulders of South Korean Olympic phenomenon Kim Yuna
in the newsThe world figure skating champion is a superstar in her homeland and favored to win gold at the Vancouver Olympics. But her status as "the nation's daughter," notes Daniel Sneider, Shorenstein APARC's associate director for research, is inextricably linked to South Korea's long, complex, and troubled history with Japan.
- » LA Times; "Kim Yuna has South Korea's full attention"
- » Chicago Tribune: "South Korea-Japan rivalry is bigger than skating"
January 4th, 2010
APARC's "Divided Memories and Reconciliation" featured in the Straits Times Singapore Newspaper
in the news: The Straits Times Singapore Newspaper, US Bureau on November 22, 2009Tracy Quek from the U.S. Bureau at The Straits Times Singapore Newspaper discusses a three-year project at APARC to examine how the main players in North-East Asia - China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan - along with the United States, form their views of the past, or what the scholars call "historical memories." Read more »
December 9th, 2008
Shorenstein APARC hosts Clint Eastwood for final film in Divided Lenses series
Shorenstein APARC, FSI Stanford NewsOn December 4, Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima was the last of four films to be screened at the Cubberley Auditorium as part of the Shorenstein APARC Divided Lenses: Film and War Memories in Asia series. Eastwood discussed the film following the screening. 
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November 3rd, 2008
Divided memories and reconciliation: history text books and war
KSP in the news: Yonhap News, Korea on September 30, 2008An international conference on "Divided Memories and Reconciliation: History Text Books and War" was held on September 29, at Northeast Asia History Foundation in Korea. The first part of Divided Memories Project, a three-year joint project of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Northeast Asia History Foundation, is to study and analyze how high school history text books in Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan and US describe the violent history between the 1931 Manchurian Incident to the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty, as the textbooks serve as the master narrative that composes the historical memory of a nation. Read more »
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