War and Conscience in Japan

Nambara Shigeru and the Asia-Pacific War

Nambara Shigeru (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

230 Seiten

2010
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7425-6813-6 (ISBN)

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One of Japan's most important intellectuals, Nambara Shigeru defended Tokyo Imperial University against its rightist critics and opposed Japan's war. His poetic diary (1936–1945), published only after the war, documents his profound disaffection. In 1945 Nambara became president of Tokyo University and was an eloquent and ardent spokesman for academic freedom. Among his most impressive speeches are two memorials to fallen student-soldiers, which directly confront Nambara's wartime dilemma: what and how to advise students called up to fight a war he did not believe in. In this first English-language collection of his key work, historian and translator Richard H. Minear introduces Nambara's career and thinking before presenting translations of the most important of Nambara's essays, poems, and speeches. A courageous but lonely voice of conscience, Nambara is one of the few mid-century Japanese to whom we can turn for inspiration during that dark period in world history.

Nambara Shigeru (1889–1974) was professor of political science at Tokyo Imperial University before and during the Asia-Pacific War then president for six years just after the war. A leading translator of classics of Hiroshima literature, Richard H. Minear is professor of history emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Translator’s Introduction: War and Conscience in Japan: Nambara Shigeru and the Asia-Pacific War
Part I: Nambara's Writings and Speeches before Japan’s Surrender
“University Autonomy,” September 5, 1938
“The Essence of the University,” April 1941
“The State and Scholarship,” Fall 1942
“The Mission of Scholars and Students,” May 1945
“The Theme of Goethe’s Faust,” May 1945
Part II: Nambara's Poetic Diary, 1936–45
Ideal Forms: A Poetic Diary
Part III: Nambara's Speeches after Japan’s Surrender
“The Mission of Scholars and Students,” September 1945
“The Construction of the New Japan,” November 1945
“The Creation of a New Japanese Culture,” February 11, 1946
“Mourning the Students Who Died in the War,” March 30, 1946
“The Emperor’s Birthday,” April 29, 1946
“What Will Revive the Homeland,” September 30, 1946
“Truth Will Be the Final Victor,” December 1951
“You Who Inherit the Legacy of the Students Who Died in the War,” November 1963

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.12.2010
Reihe/Serie	Asian Voices
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 238 mm
Gewicht	463 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7425-6813-X / 074256813X
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-6813-6 / 9780742568136
Zustand	Neuware