Remembering Pearl Harbor with Japanese and American Teachers
12-7-11
Yujin Yaguchi teaches in the North American Division of Department of Area Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. His recent publications include "Akogare no Hawai" [Longings for Hawa‘i: Japanese Views of Hawai‘i], Tokyo: Chuo Koron Shinsha, 2011). He has also edited (with Takeo Morimo and Kyoko Nakayama) a collection of essays and teaching samples on Pearl Harbor based on the teachers’ workshop, entitled "Shinjuwan wo Kataru: Rekishi, Kioku, Kyoiku" [Narrating Pearl Harbor: History, Memory, and Education] (Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Press, 2011), which is will be published on December 8 in Japan. This article is cross-posted from a roundtable on SHAFR's blog.
[1] The workshop was a collaborative project involving, among others, the East West Center, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Park Service, Pacific Historical Parks (which funded the participation of Japanese teachers), Freeman Foundation (which also sponsored Japanese teachers), and Japan America Society of Hawai‘i. The attempt to bring Japanese teachers was led by cultural anthropologist Geoffrey White, who is a board member of PHP.
[2] Emily S. Rosenberg, A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), 173.
[3] Jon Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio, “Memorializing Pu‘uloa and Remembering Pearl Harbor,” in Keith L. Camacho and Setsu Shigematsu, eds., Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010), 3-14.
[4] The original was written in Japanese and this translation was done by the author of this essay.
[5] Examples of some of these are compiled in Yujin Yaguchi, Takeo Morimo, and Kyoko Nakayama, eds., Shinjuwan wo kataru—rekishi, kioku, kyoiku [Narrating Pearl Harbor: History, Memory, and Education] (Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Press, 2011).
Roundtable
Yujin Yaguchi: Remembering Pearl Harbor with Japanese and American Teachers
John Gripentrog: The Road to War between the U.S. and Japan was Paved by Irreconcilable Worldviews
Greg Robinson: Another Sort of Pearl Harbor Infamy for Japanese Americans