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Join the Far Away Places 2015-16 Speaker Series on November 12, at 7:00pm at Barnes & Noble, for a free, swipeable event.

Akiko Takenaka teaches Japanese History at the University of Kentucky and has worked in the past with architectural history and art history at University of Michigan. Her recent publication of the same name, the first English-language study of the Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. The shrine was founded in 1869 as part of the Meiji Restoration of Japanese influence up to the end of WWII – has served various roles of “waging war, promoting peace, honoring the dead, building Japan’s modern national identity…wars of imperialism”, etc. and the book explores the controversy of these roles and the spatial practices associated with the shrine.