Nach Nürnberg und Tokio : "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" in Japan und Westdeutschland 1945 bis 1968
Compares Germany's and Japan's ways of dealing with wartime crimes and with ultra-nationalists. Argues that Japan has had greater difficulty coming to terms with the past than Germany. This is partly due to the fact that the Emperor could not be tried after the war. In addition, Japan was able to avoid confronting its own guilt by hiding behind the status of victim of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, ...



