Yoshida, Yutaka <School of Social Sciences,
Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University, King Edward VII Avenue, CF10 3NN,
Cardiff, UK>; Tozawa, Emi <School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, The University of
Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK> (Y. Yoshida, E. Tozawa, Navigating Public History: In Contestation with Japan’s Historical Revisionism, «International Public History», 2 (2025), pp. 95-101, 2025)
In this article, we examine the phenomenon of
‘historical revisionism’ (HR), a movement to construct a
‘bright’ historical narrative of Japan often by denying and
minimizing its wrongdoings under Imperial rule, and
discuss ...