Public history in Japan : theory and practice / Masafumi Yokemoto, Miho Hayashi, Michihiro Okamoto, Andrew Gordon, editors.
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Singapore, Singapore : Springer, [2025] |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | x, 114 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Yokemoto, Masafumi |
| Other author/creator | Hayashi, Miho, 1975- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjGj8BGcdgkMJy9QXGmdFC |
| Other author/creator | Okamoto, Michihiro, 1945- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjBd88CBKFv7xh7Xf9xbV3 |
| Other author/creator | Gordon, Andrew, 1952- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjrmQ9Br7yrGHkbhFYbHT3 |
| Contents | Preface / Andrew Gordon (Harvard University/ University of Tokyo) -- Part I. Theory -- Chapter 1. Considering Public History from Japanese Perspectives / Michihiro Okamoto (Toyo University) -- Chapter 2. Towards the Remagicalization of History: Minoru Hokari and Public Histories / Ted Motohashi (Tokyo Keizai University) -- Chapter 3. Dark Tourism and Public History / Akira Ide (Kanazawa University) -- Chapter 4. Eloquent Silence: When Fiction Makes Japanese History of Christianity Alive / Emi Tozawa (University of Manchester) -- Part II. Practice -- Chapter 5. Collaboration between creators and researchers in historical manga and animation works: Examples of the manga Anna Komnena and the animation Vinland Saga / Futaba Sato (manga artist), Minoru Ozawa (Rikkyo University) and Satoshi Ohtani (Tokai University) -- Chapter 6. The Potential of Digital Public History in Japan / Makoto Goto (National Institutes for Humanities, National Museum of Japanese History) -- Chapter 7. Connecting "Zaihan Korean ("Zainichi Korean in Osaka") history" to "Resident History ": Exhibition practice by Osaka Korea Town Museum / Noriko Ijichi (Osaka Metropolitan University) -- Chapter 8. Taking the Pollution (Kogai) Experiences Into the Future: A Practice of Public History / Miho Hayashi (Okayama University of Science) & Masafumi Yokemoto (Osaka Metropolitan University) -- Chapter 9. "Archiving" the Environmental Pollution in Minamata?: Expanding the Frame of Archival Photography and Exposing Humanity / Yumi Kamuro (Kumamoto University). |
| Abstract | This book explores how public history, a field developing globally, is gaining attention in Japan and being incorporated into existing Japanese academic studies and practices.Public history in Japan is conducted through an interdisciplinary approach, involving not only history but also folklore, sociology, cultural studies, and tourism studies. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical refarences. |
| ISBN | 9789819513154 |
| ISBN | 9819513154 |