The Irmgard Coninx Foundation has awarded NPCU PhD candidate Chris Perkins a funded place at the Eleventh Berlin Roundtables on "Memory Politics: Education, Memorials and Mass Media", taking place on 21-26 October 2009. Chris’s essay, ‘Remember our fallen heroes!’, looks at the role of the Yasukuni Shrine and the politics of the war dead in debates in Japan about national identity.