Remembrance – Responsibility – Reconciliation: Challenges for Education in Germany and Japan (Kindheit – Bildung – Erziehung. Philosophische Perspektiven)

Germany and Japan have taken different ways of dealing with the past of the traumatic events of World War II and their own role. Even after 75 years, the battles for remembrance are not over in both countries. Questions about responsibility, about the educational consequences of history and about possibilities for reconciliation with former enemies are constantly being asked anew and require new answers. The contributions in the book address these questions from a Japanese and German perspective on the basis of empirical and historical research, combining historical, educational, and philosophical approaches and opening up new perspectives for academic research as well as for practical educational work by comparing the cultures of remembrance.

Lothar Wigger, Dr. phil., is university professor (retired) at the Institute for General Education and Vocational Education at the TU Dortmund University