“The Global Anti-Fascist War”: Memory of the Second World War in Non-Western Countries

... continue to face consistent resistance from the opposition and from segments of Japanese civil society. Another dimension of Japan’s reckoning with this legacy involves Tokyo’s efforts to confront its difficult past through dialogue with Beijing and ... ... is clear that this vast conflict—which claimed tens of millions of lives—continues to occupy a significant place in their historical memory. This alone gives us grounds to view the Second World War as an “axial time.” A “non-Western” perspective ...