Abstract

How Was East Asian History Mobilized for War? Drawing on Outline of Greater East Asia History, a wartime project compiled through the collective efforts of the academic community, as well as the life histories of three scholars of modern and contemporary Chinese history who lived through the war and its aftermath, this book explores how postwar Asian historical studies emerged from wartime scholarship. At the same time, it reexamines the distortions and challenges that have arisen from the subsequent forgetting of this history.

Author’s Information

Toru Kubo was born in 1953. He graduated from the Department of Oriental History, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo in 1976 and completed his Master's degree in Regional Sociology at the Graduate School of Sociology, Hitotsubashi University in 1979. He served as a professor and specially appointed professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Shinshu University, and is currently a researcher at the Toyo Bunko.