Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East Asia

This handbook explores trauma in East Asia from the 19^th to the 21^st century, assessing how victims, perpetrators and societies have responded to such experiences and to what extent the legacies still resonate today.

Tina Burrett is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Japan. She is the co-editor of Japan in the Heisei Era 1989-2019 (Routledge, 2022) and Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia (Routledge, 2019) and the author of Television and Presidential Power in Putin’s Russia (Routledge, 2011).

Jeff Kingston is Professor of History at Temple University, Japan. He is the author and editor of a dozen books on contemporary Japan and Asia, including Japan’s Quiet Transformation (2004), Contemporary Japan (2011), Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan (2014) and Japan in the Heisei Era 1989-2019 (Routledge, 2022).