Memory

Wars do not end when fighting stops. Questions over historical memory—how we remember war, how we make sense of it, how we understand our individual and communal role in it—have continued to be fraught battlegrounds in the decades following the end of World War II in Asia. This gallery contrasts the denials of revisionist Japanese leaders with the advocacy of peace activists around the globe. Their labour reminds us that truth is hard-fought and indispensable to justice, reconciliation, and peace.