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Blackburn, Kevin
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Blackburn, Kevin
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kevin.blackburn@nie.edu.sg
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- PublicationOpen Access“Comfort women”: New research from Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia(Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 2024)
; ;McGregor, KatharineTsukamoto, SachiyoIn this transcription of a webinar from October 2023, speakers Kevin Blackburn (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Katharine McGregor (University of Melbourne, Australia), and Sachiyo Tsukamoto (University of Newcastle, Australia) talk about their new books on the “comfort women.”4 14 - PublicationOpen AccessWar memory and nation-building in South East AsiaThis article analyses why some countries in South East Asia have set aside a national day to remember the Japanese Occupation in the cause of nation-building and why other countries have tended to choose not to remember the Japanese Occupation because for them it does not further nation-building. Singapore, the Philippines and Burma have all remembered their experience of struggle and sacrifice during the Second World War to further national unity. However, most South East Asian countries have chosen at a national level not to commemorate this undoubtedly major watershed in the region’s history.
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