Remembrance – Responsibility – Reconciliation

Short Biographies.- Remembrance – Responsibility – Reconciliation. New Challenges for Education in Germany and Japan. Introduction.- „The Meaning of Working Through the Past”. Theodor W. Adorno and the Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the Early Years of the Federal Republic of Germany.- Contested Remembrance. The “Old” Federal Republic and “New” Right Politics in Germany.- Japan’s Soft Power and the “History Problem”.- The Nanjing Massacre in Japanese Historiography and Education.- Moral Education and Historical Revisionism.- Educational Tourism for the Nation? Memory and History at Japan’s War Sites.- Japanese War Cemeteries and what they teach us about History.- The Ambivalence of Culture of Remembrance. The Controversy over the “Comfort Women”-Statue in the Relationship between Japan and Germany.- Life Stories as Memory Carriers. Culture of Remembrance and the Importance of Biographical Work and Biographical Research.- Encountering Absurdity through Theater. An Essay on Remembering andEducation about the Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima.- The Problem of Responsibility in Technological Modernity. Reflections Following Günther Anders.