The 1955 Japanese mission to New Guinea; War remains and the politics of commemoration in the wake of the Asia-Pacific War
In January 1955, an official mission departed Japan for New Guinea to collect remains of the war dead and to erect commemorative monuments to fallen soldiers. Just before its departure, a diplomatic contretemps arose about the English wording on the Japanese stones: the Japanese government consider...
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Manchester University Press
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Human Remains and Violence |
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