TY - JOUR
T1 - Who closed the sea? archipelagoes of amnesia between the united states and Japan
AU - Dvorak, Greg
PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - There is a profound lack of awareness among younger generations about Japan's prewar engagement with the Pacific Islands, let alone other colonial sites, yet arguably, this amnesia is not a spontaneous phenomenon. Forgetting about Micronesia and erasing it from the Japanese mass consciousness was a project in which both Japanese and American postwar forces were complicit. Focusing on stories of Japanese amnesia and selective memory in the Marshall Islands, I explore the Marshallese notion of ''closing the sea,'' how U.S. power has long been a mediating factor in why Japanese forget their Pacific past, and also why Marshall Islanders remember it.
AB - There is a profound lack of awareness among younger generations about Japan's prewar engagement with the Pacific Islands, let alone other colonial sites, yet arguably, this amnesia is not a spontaneous phenomenon. Forgetting about Micronesia and erasing it from the Japanese mass consciousness was a project in which both Japanese and American postwar forces were complicit. Focusing on stories of Japanese amnesia and selective memory in the Marshall Islands, I explore the Marshallese notion of ''closing the sea,'' how U.S. power has long been a mediating factor in why Japanese forget their Pacific past, and also why Marshall Islanders remember it.
KW - Amnesia
KW - Japan
KW - Marshall Islands
KW - Memory
KW - Pacific
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U2 - 10.1525/phr.2014.83.2.350
DO - 10.1525/phr.2014.83.2.350
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84899650864
VL - 83
SP - 350
EP - 372
JO - Pacific Historical Review
JF - Pacific Historical Review
SN - 0030-8684
IS - 2
ER -