In this book, an international group of historians examines how collective memories of the Asia-Pacific War continue to affect relations among China, Japan, and the United States. The contributors are primarily concerned with the history of international relations broadly conceived to encompass not only governments but also nongovernmental groups and organizations that influence the interactions of peoples across the Pacific. Taken together, the essays provide a rich, multifaceted analysis of how the dynamic interplay between past and present is manifest in policymaking, popular culture, public commemorations, and other arenas.

I. Memory's Many Forms--1. Remembering Pearl Harbor before September 11, 2001--II. Policymakers and the Uses of Historical Memory--2. The first revisionists: Bonner Fellers, Herbert Hoover, and Japan's decision to surrender--3. History and memory in postwar U.S.-Japanese relations--4. Cold War diplomacy and memories of the Pacific war: a comparison of the American and Japanese cases--III. Making Memory Concrete: Museums, Monuments, and Memorials--5. Constructing a national memory of war: war museums in China, Japan, and the United States--6. The Enola Gay and contested public memory--7. War memories across the Pacific: Japanese visitors at the Arizona memorial--IV. Transpacific Memories--8. Memory and the lost found relationship between black Americans and Japan--9. Entangled memories: China in American and Japanese remembrances of World War II.