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| Titel: |
Yasui Kaoru: citizen-scholar in war and peace |
| Auteur: |
Orr, James J. |
| Verschenen in: |
Japan forum |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 12 (2000) nr. 1 pagina's 1-14 |
| Jaar: |
2000-04-01 |
| Inhoud: |
As the leader of Japan's ban-the-bomb movement in the 1950s and 1960s, scholar-activist Yasui Kaoru achieved international prominence for his promotion of grassroots anti-nuclear pacifism. Yet from his position as Professor of International Law at Tokyo Imperial University in the 1930s and 1940s, Yasui contributed to the formation of official cultural policy in occupied China and called on intellectuals to support Japan's wartime government. Although he later came to regret his naivety in collaborating with the wartime government's policies of military expansion, he never disowned the sincerity of his efforts to ameliorate the worst excesses of Japanese imperialism and help it fulfill the promise of true liberation for East Asia. Yasui subscribed to a philosophy of the scholar as politically engaged intellectual. This analysis of his writings on civic activism and his discipline's epistemologically problematic incorporation of politics into its practice suggests that Yasui was what he insisted he was: a liberal yet patriotic academic committed to pragmatic engagement with political realities. In the newly democratic postwar Japan, this commitment inspired him to try rallying the Japanese masses in the cause of peace rather than mobilizing the elite in the cause of war. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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