cover image: The limits of repentance: lessons from France for a comparative approach with the Japan-Korea histor

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The limits of repentance: lessons from France for a comparative approach with the Japan-Korea histor

18 Oct 2021

The of inflamed memories”.5 unprincipled behavior of some elements of the French forces, the use of torture and rape of In that context, the objective of this paper is prisoners on one side, the number of civilian to ascertain from an analysis of the Stora Report victims, and the acts of terror both against and its findings if there is a “French model” that French colons and Algerians working for. [...] some on the French side deplore that victims of the FLN (Front de Libération Nationale) and In the 21st century, more than 70 years after political repression of opponents among those the end of the colonial period in Japan and 60 who fought for the liberation of Algeria are still years in the case of France, the past has been not debated openly. [...] The example of France is differentiated by the fact that, since the end of the 1980s, the For President Macron, one objective of opening of military and other archives has led the report was to take two positions on the to a flourish of publications by historians on same subject, recognizing on the one hand the many dif ferent issues and from dif ferent and necessity of controlling migration to wi. [...] Problems Biden of the United States visited for the first arise when only one of the two sides wishes to time the site of the Tulsa massacre, answering engage in this historical scrutiny and the other the same expectations from a significant part side needs the history to support its legitimacy. [...] Moreover, the speed and scope of reconciliation and dialogue on history and memory issues are almost entirely in the hands of Algeria in the case of France, or South Korea in the case of Japan, and at the mercy of insecure or weak political movements tempted by nationalism and populism.
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Japan