The role of forensic anthropological techniques in identifying America's war dead from past conflicts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Belcher ◽  
Calvin Y. Shiroma ◽  
Lesley A. Chesson ◽  
Gregory E. Berg ◽  
Miranda Jans
Keyword(s):  
War Dead

Diplomatic Salvation: Buddhist Exchanges and Sino-Japanese Rapprochement

2020 ◽  
pp. 187-203
Author(s):  
Lauren Richardson ◽  
Gregory Adam Scott
Keyword(s):  
Diplomatic History ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
Soka Gakkai ◽  
History Of ◽  
War Dead ◽  
Jodo Shinshu

Beginning in the ruins of Buddhist sacred sites in China, Richardson and Scott unearths the reconstruction of post-imperial Sino-Japanese relations through the history of Buddhist exchanges. Building on important new trends in the diplomatic history of early Cold War East Asia, Richardson and Scott move well beyond the focus on Japan-PRC economic relations to minkan religious networks which tied Japan and China throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In so doing this chapter sheds light on the central role of temple priests and religious groups such as Jōdō shinshū and Sōka gakkai, illustrating how Buddhism and religion were pragmatically deployed to bypass official obstacles to bilateral relations. Ultimately, this chapter deepens our understanding of how Buddhist religious and cultural heritages were mobilized to build trust and cooperation beyond the violence of imperial wars. In memorializing war dead, and in returning the remains of forced laborers, religious leaders played an important role in normalizing relations between Japan and the PRC.

The Yasukuni Shrine Dispute and the Politics of Identity in Japan: Why All the Fuss?

Asian Survey ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daiki Shibuichi
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
War Dead ◽  
Yasukuni Shrine

The Yasukuni Shrine specifically honors the ““spirits”” of Japanese war dead. Visits by Japanese prime ministers to the shrine have stirred domestic anger and triggered numerous diplomatic disputes. This article focuses on the role of Japanese rightists in the disputes and describes an aspect of identity politics in Japan.

scholarly journals THE POLITICO-RELIGIOUS DILEMMA OF THE YASUKUNI SHRINE

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-55
Author(s):  
Shinya Masa’aki
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Postwar Japan ◽  
The Core ◽  
Ww Ii ◽  
Political Ideal ◽  
War Dead ◽  
Yasukuni Shrine ◽  
Religious Nature

This article concerns itself with the relation of the Yasukuni Shrine with the state in prewar and postwar Japan. It focuses on the agencies involved, that is, on organizations and individuals that represent this institution or relate to it in other ways. Its main goal is to clarify the situation of the Yasukuni Shrine, particularly the dilemma it faces. Being rooted in a diverse Shinto tradition and established by the imperialist Meiji Government, the prewar Yasukuni Shrine was a representative institution of stateShinto. Its situation alters drastically after WW II, when Japan was induced to shift its politics toward a democratic parliamentary state. The core of the Yasukuni problem is that this shrine is a memorial for all Japanese war dead that provides exclusive Shinto memorial services, within which religion, patriotism, and nationalism coalesce into one and the same attitude. Yasukuni’s dilemma concerns the adoption of either a religious or a political ideal, but the Yasukuni authorities apparently want both. The paper briefly relates the origin of the Yasukuni Shrine and discusses the religious nature of state-Shinto, the translation problem of the word religion into Japanese, and finally, Yasukuni’s postwar development, highlighting the role of various actors in this social practice.

scholarly journals Eurípides: Suplicantes (838-954)

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-193
Author(s):  
Evandro Luis Salvador
Keyword(s):  
Social Function ◽  
The Other ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
Funeral Rites ◽  
The Social ◽  
War Dead

This text presents a free verse translation of the funeral rites (838-954) in Euripides’ The Suppliant Women. It is followed by a panoramic introduction highlighting the social function of the funeral for the war-dead. In this tragedy, Theseus fulfills the role of a commander and buries the majority of the Argive dead at Eleutherai, and it is Adrastus, along with Theseus, who conducts the funeral rites for the other five Argive heroes at Eleusis.

A Grave Reconciliation: The Establishment of German War Cemeteries in Normandy, 1944–1964

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-195
Author(s):  
Zoë Rose Buonaiuto
Keyword(s):  
War Dead

After the Battle of Normandy, one of the primary concerns in the region was what to do with the bodies of the former occupiers: the German war dead. As the Allied graves registration units left Normandy, local French leaders were responsible for the care of German war graves until the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, VDK) took over maintenance responsibilities in the mid-1950s and officially inaugurated them as VDK sites in the early 1960s. This essay traces that transition and argues that in the period between 1944 and 1964 it was necessary for Normandy and greater France to assume the role of host to German war dead in perpetuity. The act of hosting German war dead on French soil smoothed the conditions necessary for Franco-German reconciliation in the second half of the 20th century.

Cultures of Commemoration

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Usa ◽  
War Dead ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Key Questions

This book offers a comparative approach to the study of the commemoration of war. It draws together a set of contributions that combine to produce a considered approach to the changes and continuities that marked the ways in which war, and in particular the war dead, were commemorated and remembered. Chapters explore the commemorative practices of Ancient Greece and Rome, and investigate how those practices have been reflected, adapted and abandoned in more recent Western cultures, from eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Britain, Germany and the USA. The book concentrates on monuments set up by communities, from local communities to the state, but it also considers the role of ‘private’ memorials, since the interaction between private or more personalised monuments and the commemoration of the war dead by the community often lies at the heart of commemorative practices. It furthermore explores the relationship between memory and forgetting, in the context of the longer-term idea of cultural memory. Key questions addressed by the book include: What importance does such commemoration have for the cultures that continue to live with the legacies of the commemorative actions of the recent and distant past? How is the commemoration of the war dead of the past not only used but reused? The book demonstrates that our own understanding of the treatment of the war dead has absorbed and reinterpreted the treatments already developed by past societies.

scholarly journals Difficult Pasts and Haunted Presents: Contemporary Archaeology and Conflict in an Age of Global Uncertainty

2019 ◽  
pp. 5-21
Author(s):  
James Symonds
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
The Us ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
War Dead ◽  
Socially Relevant ◽  
Global Uncertainty

This article examines the role of archaeology in contemporary society. It works from the premise that archaeology is a form of socio-political action and explores some of the ways in which archaeologies of the recent past can have therapeutic or cathartic effects. Three case studies are presented. The first two focus on the recovery of war dead and the memorialization of conflict landscapes at Fromelles, in northern France, and Peleliu, in Micronesia. The third explores the materiality of unauthorised migration in the US-Mexico borderlands of southern Arizona. The central argument presented in this article is that in an age of global uncertainty, where support for the humanities is in decline and respect for academic knowledge is diminishing, archaeologists should re-position their work to more clearly focus on contemporary social issues. If archaeology is to survive as a discipline it must be seen as being socially relevant research, with the capacity to contribute to contemporary public discourses.

Role of dactinomycin in the improved survival of children with Wilms' tumor

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor

Role of the allergist in diagnosis and management of patients with uveitis

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Van Metre
Keyword(s):  
Diagnosis And Management

The power of norms to sway fused group members

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnifred R. Louis ◽  
Craig McGarty ◽  
Emma F. Thomas ◽  
Catherine E. Amiot ◽  
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Identity Fusion ◽  
Group Members

AbstractWhitehouse adapts insights from evolutionary anthropology to interpret extreme self-sacrifice through the concept of identity fusion. The model neglects the role of normative systems in shaping behaviors, especially in relation to violent extremism. In peaceful groups, increasing fusion will actually decrease extremism. Groups collectively appraise threats and opportunities, actively debate action options, and rarely choose violence toward self or others.

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