FASS Brown Bag Seminar by Dr Masako Hattori | The U.S. Military, Urban Tourism, and Collective Memory in Twentieth Century Japan

Dear all,

You are cordially invited to the third session of the FASS Brown Bag Seminar Series in Semester 2 of AY24/25. Dr Masako Hattori (NUS History) will be presenting on “The U.S. Military, Urban Tourism, and Collective Memory in Twentieth Century Japan”.

Date: 14 Mar, 12pm – 1pm
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The U.S. Military, Urban Tourism, and Collective Memory in Twentieth Century Japan
In recent years, there has been a surge of historical interest in the complex link between military forces and tourism. In this talk, I will look at Kobe, a city whose economy is now based on trade and tourism but is rarely associated with imperialism or militarism, to shed light on the cultural dynamics that drove the rise of urban tourism in late-twentieth-century Japan, which built on but erased a multifaceted imperial and militarist past.

Masako Hattori is a historian of the twentieth-century United States. Her academic interests include war and society, social policy, U.S. foreign relations, as well as education, youth, and childhood. Her first book, The Age of Youth: American Society and the Two World Wars, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.