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Why Do We Still Need to Talk About “Historical Understanding” in East Asia?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Hiroshi Mitani  and
Andrew Gordon
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I am delighted that this essay by my longtime colleague and friend, Hiroshi Mitani, can be brought to the attention of English language readers. It is also, of course, most welcome that the original Japanese version has recently been published on the Japanese Huffington Post website.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 32 , August 2014 , e2
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1 One of these was published in English translation, Toward a History Beyond Borders: Contentious Issues in Sino-Japanese Relations (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2012), edited by Daqing Yang, Jie Liu, Hiroshi Mitani, and Andrew Gordon.

2 臼井勝美『新版 日中戦争』中公新書, 2000 年, 208-209頁。三谷博『愛国・革命・民主』筑摩書房, 2013 年、第1章。 Usui Katsumi, Shinpan: Nisshin sensō. Chūō shinsho, 2000, pp. 208-209. Mitani Hiroshi, Aikoku, Kakumei, Minshu. Chikuma shobō, 2013, Chapter 1.

3 李英著、小島晋治編訳『中国民主改革派の主張中国共産党私史』岩波現代文庫, 2013 年, 124, 270頁。 Li Ying, Chūgoku minshu kaikaku ha no shuchō: Chūgoku kyōsantō shishi. Edited and translated by Kojima Shinji. Iwanami bunkō, 2013. Pp. 124, 270.

4 永原陽子『「植民地責任」論――脱植民地化の比較史』（青木書店, 2009年). I am here informed by the general concept of “colonial responsibility” as articulated by Nagahara Yoko, “Shokuminchi sekinin”ron: datsu shokuminchika no hikaku shi. Aoki shoten, 2009.