War and Conscience in Japan
Nambara Shigeru and the Asia-Pacific War
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2010
Altamira Press (Verlag)
978-0-7425-6814-3 (ISBN)
Altamira Press (Verlag)
978-0-7425-6814-3 (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 (1936D1945), 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 (1889D1974) 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.
Reihe/Serie | Asian Voices (Paperback) |
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Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
Verlagsort | California |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7425-6814-8 / 0742568148 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7425-6814-3 / 9780742568143 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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