ABSTRACT
In the twenty-year period from the Manchurian Incident (1931), which marks the start of the Asia-Pacific War, to the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty (1951), the histories of Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, and the United States overlapped. The chain connecting these areas was the war. However, because of the different ways in which each country became involved in the war and the path that they traveled after it, the attitude with which they each remember and interpret this chapter in history differs. Also, because each country’s history textbooks describe the Asia-Pacific War from their own perspectives, the differences grow over how this event is remembered.
