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Harvard Meiji Restoration Losers Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan 2014 Edition by Michael Wert
This book is about the "losers" of the Meiji Restoration and the supporters who promoted their legacy. Although the violence of the Meiji Restoration is typically downplayed, the trauma was real, and those who felt marginalized from the mainstream throughout modern Japan looked to these losers as models of action.Using a wide range of sources, from essays by former Tokugawa supporters like Fukuzawa Yukichi to postwar film and "lost decade" manga, Michael Wert traces the shifting portrayals of Restoration losers. By highlighting the overlooked sites of memory such as legends about buried gold, the awarding of posthumous court rank, or fighting over a disembodied head, Wert illustrates how the process of commemoration and rehabilitation allows individuals a voice in the formation of national history. He argues that the commingling of local memory activists with nationally known politicians, academics, writers, and treasure hunters formed interconnecting memory landscapes that promoted local figures as potential heroes in modern Japan. Table of contents :- Introduction1. Jelena Mihaljevic Djigunovic: Context and Structure of the Study2. Jelena Mihaljevic Djigunovic: Individual Differences among Young EFL Learners: Age- or Proficiency-related? A Look from the Affective Learner Factors Perspective3. Visnja Josipovic Smojver: Croatian Primary School Pupils and English Pronunciation in the Light of the Emergence of English as a Lingua Franca4. Lovorka Zergollern-Miletic: Acquisition of the Markers of Definiteness and Indefiniteness in Early EFL5. Marta Medved Krajnovic and Irena Kocijan Pevec: Present Tense Development in 11- to 13-Year-Old EFL Learners 6. Smiljana Narancic Kovac and Ivana Milkovic: Associating Temporal Meanings with Past and Present7. Renata Geld: What Vocabulary Networks Reveal about Young Learners' Language8. Renata Samo: Receptive Skills in the Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Context of EFL Learning9. Stela Letica Krevelj and Marta Medved Krajnovic: Early EFL Development from a Dynamic Systems PerspectiveAfterword