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X-WR-CALNAME:Memorializing Wartime Foreign Labor in Japan
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DESCRIPTION:Join the World History Center for a lecture by Dr. Andrew Gordo
 n (Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History from Harvard University
 ) on the history of memorializing wartime foreign labor in Japan. \n\n \n\
 nDuring World War II\, and with greatest intensity in the last years of th
 e war\, the Japanese government used drafted and in that sense forced labo
 r of about 700\,000 Koreans transported from the Korean peninsula to Japan
  in mines\, factories\, and military construction sites\, as well as over 
 30\,000 Chinese captured laborers and over 10\,000 Allied prisoners of war
 . Since the war\, and for the most part between the 1970s and early 2000s\
 , a range of organizations have erected a surprisingly large number of mon
 uments (cenotaphs) memorializing these experiences and mourning the many w
 ho died. In this talk Andrew Gordon will introduce a number of these monum
 ents and discuss their significance. Whether in the vicinity of world heri
 tage sites\, or at all the many other locations where Koreans\, Chinese\, 
 or Allied POWs were forced to work\, the marking of this heritage remains 
 an ongoing process. This is not a linear movement toward a full account of
  a difficult past\, but is nonetheless a dynamic process moving in fits an
 d starts with no sign of closure.
GEO:40.441386;-79.954582
LOCATION:Wesley W. Posvar Hall\, 3703
SUMMARY:Memorializing Wartime Foreign Labor in Japan
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/memorializing-wartime-foreign
 -labor-in-japan
CATEGORIES:Lectures\, Symposia\, Etc.
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