Writing History in America's Shadow - 9789813251069

Writing History in America's ShadowJapan, the Philippines, and the Question of Pan-Asianism\nAuthor(s): Takamichi Serizawa\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: NUS Press, Singapore\nImprint: NUS Press\nISBN-13: 9789813251069, 978-9813251069\nSynopsis\nBoth the Japanese and Filipino people experienced a re-writing of their national histories upon being defeated by the United States: the Philippines after 1902 and Japan after 1945. This re-writing was conducted in order to justify and explain US rule and its ideology of modernisation and democracy. These new histories portrayed the immediate past as the dark ages: the Spanish colonial period for the Philippines and Japan's wartime totalitarianism and militarism. \n\nWhat kind of dilemmas and contradictions did Filipino and Japanese historians and intellectuals embrace by accepting the US re-writing of their national histories? Did Japanese Filipino and Japanese historians interact at all, under the US hegemony? The idea of America's Shadow i.