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guarnotta, carolina (2018)

Collective Remembering: Mutiple Meanings of Memorials in Contemporary Japan

Master thesis | Asian Studies (60 EC) (MA)

A comparative study of two memorials and their museums (Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Yasukuni Shrine) in Japan, with an insight on the public opinion of the two on the web.

war memory

collective memory

japan

memorial

hiroshima

yasukuni

atomic bomb

visitor studies

Author

guarnotta, carolina

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

MA Asian Studies - Critical Heritage of Asia and Europe

Supervisors

Müller, Doreen

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en