Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Coming to terms with the darker past in Korea -- I. The counter-narratives and the voices of World War II : an update -- 1. The Korean? comfort women? tragedy as structural violence / Chunghee Sarah Soh, SF State University -- 2. The resignification of the comfort women? through NGO trials / Hideko Mitsui, Stanford University -- 3. The politics of remembrance: the case of Korean forced laborers in World War II / Soon-won Park, Howard University -- II. Democratization and domestic historical injustice -- 4. The war against the enemy within?: hidden massacres in the early stages of the Korean War / Dong-choon Kim, Song Kong Hoe University -- 5. Justice incomplete: the remedies for the victims of Jeju April Third Incidents / Tae Ung Baik, University of British Columbia -- 6. From Seoul to Saigon: Gook meets Charlie / Kyung-yoong Bay, Shiga Prefecture University -- Part II. Toward a Northeast Asian approach to historical injustice? -- III. Korean experience in comparative perspective -- 7. The aesthetic construction of ethnic nationalism: War Memorial Museums in Korea and Japan / Hong kal, York University -- 8. Difficult neighbors: Japan and North Korea / Gavan mccormack, Australian National University -- Dynamics of denial: responses to past atrocities in Germany, Turkey and Japan / John Torpey, University of British Columbia -- IV. Reconciliation and regional cooperation -- 10. A strong state, weak civil society and cold war geopolitics / Andrew Horvat, Tokyo Keizai University -- 11. Pop culture, public memory and Korean-Japanese relations / Chiho Sawada, Stanford University -- 12. Economic Integration and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia: Possibilities and Limitations / Wonhyuk Lim, Korea Development Institute.

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