Rethinking the Japanese Past: Revising a Textbook, Revising History (Lecture by Prof. Andrew GORDON)

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The past, it is said, is a foreign country, and historians seek to understand it without imposing present-day values. Yet inevitably, to write history is to engage in a dialogue between the past and the present. In this talk I will introduce my internal dialogue over the 25 years during which I wrote four editions of A Modern History of Japan, and am now considering a fifth edition.

Speaker
Andrew GORDON (Ushioda Fellow, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo)

Commentator
IOKIBE Kaoru (Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo)

Moderator
SHIMAZU Naoko (Professor, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo)