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SUMMARY:'The Battles of Battleship Island: History\, Memory\, Heritage' -
  Dr Mark Pendleton
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DESCRIPTION:'The Battles of Battleship Island: History\, Memory\, Heritag
 e' \nDr Mark Pendleton (University of Sheffield)\n\nIn September 2013\, 
 the Japanese government announced plans to nominate the Modern Industria
 l Heritage Sites of Kyushu and Yamaguchi for UNESCO World Heritage statu
 s in 2015. One of the key locations in this grouping of proposed heritag
 e sites is an island called Hashima (also known as Gunkanjima\, or Battl
 eship Island)\, off the coast of Nagasaki. Now a prominent haikyo (ruin)
  destination and most famous internationally as the setting for the vill
 ain's lair in 2012's Bond film Skyfall\, Hashima was populated between t
 he 1880s and 1970s as the entrance to an undersea coal mine. The island 
 also housed a large number of forced labourers of Korean and Chinese des
 cent in the 1930s and 1940s\, was exposed to the fallout of the Nagasaki
  atomic bomb and was central to the re-emergence of postwar Japanese ind
 ustry. Through this one site can be traced the many contestations over E
 ast Asian modernity.??In this paper\, which emerges from an Arts and Hum
 anities Research Council Care for the Future exploratory grant which fun
 ded a period of archival and fieldwork in Nagasaki in 2013\, I explore H
 ashima's place in contemporary contestations over heritage\, history and
  memory in East Asia. I will focus specifically on the different underst
 andings of Hashima's importance as an historical/heritage site\, between
  those who see it as emblematic of the emergence of a modern\, industria
 l Japan and those who see it as complicit in a specifically imperial mod
 ernity.\nThis distinction is most sharply drawn through competing memori
 es of those who lived on the island during the pre-war period of forced 
 labour\, particularly Korean forced labourers\, and those who lived on i
 t in the postwar\, primarily the children of miners. These competing mem
 ories have appeared in a range of textual forms – multiple autobiographi
 es\, photography books\, documentary films\, guided tours and published 
 collections. In this paper\, I will examine the ways in which contempora
 ry relations to Japan’s imperial and industrial past are constructed and
  contested through these competing memory texts.\n
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LOCATION:A201\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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