Constructions of Japan and the Japanese : war, memory and foreign policy in Singapore

• Main Author: Liu, Joseph Woon Keong
• Other Authors: Michael Stanley-Baker
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::History
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137536
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In Singapore, Japan and the Japanese are remembered through different modes of memory. Of these different modes, Japan is constructed in an adversarial mode as an eternal enemy in Singapore’s national history and in a collaborative mode as an ally and model to be emulated. The thesis examines how th...