Neonationalist Mythology In Postwar Japan

Author : Nariaki Nakazato
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498528368

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Neonationalist Mythology in Postwar Japan by Nariaki Nakazato Pdf

Radhabinod Pal was an Indian jurist who achieved international fame as the judge representing India at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and dissented from the majority opinion, holding that all Japanese “Class A” war criminals were not guilty of any of the charges brought against them. In postwar Japanese politics, right-wing polemicists have repeatedly utilized his dissenting judgment in their political propaganda aimed at refuting the Tokyo trial’s majority judgment and justifying Japan’s aggression, gradually elevating this controversial lawyer from India to a national symbol of historical revisionism. Many questions have been raised about how to appropriately assess Pal’s dissenting judgment and Pal himself. Were the arguments in Pal’s judgment sound? Why did he submit such a bold dissenting opinion? What was the political context? More fundamentally, why and how did the Allies ever nominate such a lawyer as a judge for a tribunal of such great political importance? How should his dissent be situated within the context of modern Asian history and the development of international criminal justice? What social and political circumstances in Japan thrust him into such a prominent position? Many of these questions remain unanswered, while some have been misinterpreted. This book proposes answers to many of them and presents a critique of the persistent revisionist denial of war responsibility in the Japanese postwar right-wing movement.

Author : William D. Hoover
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538111567

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Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan by William D. Hoover Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has several hundred cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.

Author : Partha Chatterjee
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231551359

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I Am the People by Partha Chatterjee Pdf

The forms of liberal government that emerged after World War II are in the midst of a profound crisis. In I Am the People, Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today’s dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for “the people.” To uncover the roots of populism, Chatterjee traces the twentieth-century trajectory of the welfare state and neoliberal reforms. Mobilizing ideals of popular sovereignty and the emotional appeal of nationalism, anticolonial movements ushered in a world of nation-states while liberal democracies in Europe guaranteed social rights to their citizens. But as neoliberal techniques shrank the scope of government, politics gave way to technical administration by experts. Once the state could no longer claim an emotional bond with the people, the ruling bloc lost the consent of the governed. To fill the void, a proliferation of populist leaders have mobilized disaffected groups into a battle that they define as the authentic people against entrenched oligarchy. Once politics enters a spiral of competitive populism, Chatterjee cautions, there is no easy return to pristine liberalism. Only a counter-hegemonic social force that challenges global capital and facilitates the equal participation of all peoples in democratic governance can achieve significant transformation. Drawing on thinkers such as Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault, and Ernesto Laclau and with a particular focus on the history of populism in India, I Am the People is a sweeping, theoretically rich account of the origins of today’s tempests.

Author : Robert J. Pekkanen,Saadia Pekkanen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1001 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190050993

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The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics by Robert J. Pekkanen,Saadia Pekkanen Pdf

"Book Abstract and Keywords: The study of Japanese politics has flourished over the past several decades. This Handbook provides a state-of-the-field overview for students and researchers of Japanese. The volume also serves to introduce Japanese politics to readers less familiar with Japan. In addition, the volume has a theme of "evaluating Japan's democracy." Taken as a whole, the volume provides a positive evaluation of the state of Japan's democracy. The volume is divided into two parts, roughly corresponding to domestic Japanese politics and Japan's international politics. Within the domestic politics part, there are four distinct sections: "Domestic Political Actors and Institutions," covering the Japanese Constitution, electoral systems, prime minister, Diet, bureaucracy, judiciary, and local government; "Political Parties and Coalitions," covering the Liberal Democratic Party, coalition government, Kōmeitō, and the political opposition; "Policymaking and the Public," covering the policymaking process, public opinion, civil society, and populism; and, "Political Economy and Social Policy," covering industrial, energy, social welfare, agricultural, monetary, and immigration policies, as well as social inequality. In the international relations part, there are four sections: "International Relations Frameworks," covering grand strategy, international organizations, and international status; "International Political Economy," covering trade, finance, foreign direct investment, the environment, economic regionalism, and the linkage between security and economics; "International Security," covering remilitarization, global and regional security multilateralism, nuclear nonproliferation, naval power, space security, and cybersecurity; and, "Foreign Relations" covering Japan's relations with the United States, China, South Korea, ASEAN, India, the European Union, and Russia. Keywords: international relations, comparative politics, democracy, international order, alliances, space security, elections, Liberal Democratic Party, multilateralism, remilitarization, international organizations, populism, civil society, coalitions, political parties, trade, finance monetary policy, foreign direct investment, cybersecurity"--

Author : David J. Cohen,Yuma Totani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107119703

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The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal by David J. Cohen,Yuma Totani Pdf

Challenges the persistent orthodoxies of the Tokyo tribunal and provides a new framework for evaluating the trial, revealing its importance to international jurisprudence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004361058

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Transcultural Justice at the Tokyo Tribunal by Anonim Pdf

The Tokyo Tribunal (1946-1948) tried Japanese leaders for war crimes committed during the Second World War, but behind the scenes, old legal traditions contended with new legal ethics and refigured cultural perceptions of how to bringing about justice.

Author : Nobuko Adachi
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498544856

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Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune by Nobuko Adachi Pdf

This is a book about the power ethnic capital and how it drives both the economics of, and the quest for identity in, a Japanese Brazilian commune. Adachi tells readers what this small diaspora community can teach us about how life “in the trenches” looks to those on the outskirts of the exploding transnational world economy. This book explores the various strategies locals use to compete with others with whom they are linked locally, nationally, and globally. Through the story of Kubo daily life, Adachi offers insights into important aspects of social and linguistic theory, as well as explicating how cross-border relations become more and more intertwined. In a sense, Kubo’s story, with its struggles to maintain its identity—even its survival—in an increasingly globalized world, encapsulates many of the problems now faced by smaller communities around the world, be they diasporic or regionally entrenched, or ethnically, racially, or religiously composed. Adachi explores the motivations for racial and ethnic boundary-making based primarily on values and principles rather than purely physiological features by focusing on Kubo and its marketing of supposedly traditional Japanese cultural values, in spite of the commune being located in the interior of Brazil. To do this she incorporates notions from linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics, including problems of language maintenance, the relationships between language and symbolic power, and the intricacies of language and gender. Doing so helps theorize the tensions between hybridity and purity entailed in the complexities of identity dynamics.

Author : Barak Kushner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501774034

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The Geography of Injustice by Barak Kushner Pdf

In The Geography of Injustice, Barak Kushner argues that the war crimes tribunals in East Asia formed and cemented national divides that persist into the present day. In 1946 the Allies convened the Tokyo Trial to prosecute Japanese wartime atrocities and Japan's empire. At its conclusion one of the judges voiced dissent, claiming that the justice found at Tokyo was only "the sham employment of a legal process for the satisfaction of a thirst for revenge." War crimes tribunals, Kushner shows, allow for the history of the defeated to be heard. In contemporary East Asia a fierce battle between memory and history has consolidated political camps across this debate. The Tokyo Trial courtroom, as well as the thousands of other war crimes tribunals opened in about fifty venues across Asia, were legal stages where prosecution and defense curated facts and evidence to craft their story about World War Two. These narratives and counter narratives form the basis of postwar memory concerning Japan's imperial aims across the region. The archival record and the interpretation of court testimony together shape a competing set of histories for public consumption. The Geography of Injustice offers compelling evidence that despite the passage of seven decades since the end of the war, East Asia is more divided than united by history.

Author : Geoffrey C. Gunn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498590143

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Overcoming Ptolemy by Geoffrey C. Gunn Pdf

This book explores the effects that the Ptolemaic template developed by Claudius Ptolemy almost two thousand years ago had on the cartography and worldview of Europe through and beyond the age of European discovery. It shows how this template was refined and ultimately overcome.

Author : Yi Tae-Jin,Eugene Y. Park,Kirk W. Larsen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498566414

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Peace in the East by Yi Tae-Jin,Eugene Y. Park,Kirk W. Larsen Pdf

On October 26, 1909, the Korean patriot An Chunggŭn assassinated the Japanese statesman Itō Hirobumi in Harbin, China. More than a century later, the ramifications of An’s daring act continue to reverberate across East Asia and beyond. This volume explores the abiding significance of An, his life, and his written work, most notably On Peace in the East (Tongyang p’yŏnghwaron), from a variety of perspectives, especially historical, legal, literary, philosophical, and political. The ways in which An has been understood and interpreted by contemporaries, by later generations, and by scholars and thinkers even today shed light on a range of significant issues including the intellectual and philosophical underpinnings for both imperial expansion and resistance to it; the ongoing debate concerning whether violence, or even terrorism, is ever justified; and the possibilities for international cooperation in today’s East Asia as a regional collective. Students and scholars of East Asia will find much to engage with and learn from in this volume.

Author : Peter Dale Scott
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498576673

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Poetry and Terror by Peter Dale Scott Pdf

The book explores, in interview format, issues raised but not fully explored by Scott’s poem Coming to Jakarta on the 1965 Indonesian massacre. In addition, Scott reflects on ways that poetry can serve as a non-violent higher politics, contributing to the evolution of human culture and thus our “second nature.”

Author : John Breen,Sueki Fumihiko,Yamada Shōji
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824892210

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Beyond Zen by John Breen,Sueki Fumihiko,Yamada Shōji Pdf

Beyond Zen: D. T. Suzuki and the Modern Transformation of Buddhism is an accessible collection of multidisciplinary essays, which offer a genuinely new appraisal of the great Zen scholar-practitioner, D. T. Suzuki (1870–1966). Suzuki’s writings and lectures continue to exert a profound influence on how Zen, Buddhism more broadly, and indeed Japanese culture as a whole, are understood in the United States, Europe, and across the globe. With the publication of Beyond Zen, we have at last in a single volume a comprehensive assessment of Suzuki that locates him and his legacy in the context of the turbulent age in which he lived. Now is the perfect moment for reflection and stocktaking. The fiftieth anniversary of Suzuki’s death passed just a few years ago, the copyright on his literary output has expired, and his selected works have recently been published by a major American university press. The work comprises twelve essays by some of the best Zen scholars in the world, Anglophone and Japanese, seasoned and young. They take a fresh look at Suzuki, his life and legacy, and their themes range broadly. Readers will find here explorations of Suzuki as he engaged with Zen and Mahāyāna Buddhism; nationalism and international relations; war and peace; religion, literature, and the media; the individual and society; and family, friends, and animals. Beyond Zen is structured chronologically to reveal the development in Suzuki’s thought during his long and eventful life. All in all, this collection offers a compelling, provocative, and multidimensional reappraisal of an extraordinary man and his times.

Author : Morten Bergsmo,Emiliano J. Buis
Publisher : Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788283481204

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Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law by Morten Bergsmo,Emiliano J. Buis Pdf

Author : Joe R. Feagin,Kimberley Ducey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317276548

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Elite White Men Ruling by Joe R. Feagin,Kimberley Ducey Pdf

This book examines the “who, what, when, where, and how” of elite-white-male dominance in U.S. and global society. In spite of their domination in the United States and globally that we document herein, elite white men have seldom been called out and analyzed as such. They have received little to no explicit attention with regard to systemic racism issues, as well as associated classism and sexism issues. Almost all public and scholarly discussions of U.S. racism fail to explicitly foreground elite white men or to focus specifically on how their interlocking racial, class, and gender statuses affect their globally powerful decisionmaking. Some of the power positions of these elite white men might seem obvious, but they are rarely analyzed for their extraordinary significance. While the principal focus of this book is on neglected research and policy questions about the elite-white-male role and dominance in the system of racial oppression in the United States and globally, because of their positioning at the top of several societal hierarchies the authors periodically address their role and dominance in other oppressive (e.g., class, gender) hierarchies.

Author : Javier Pérez-Jara,Lino Camprubí
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793618481

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Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell by Javier Pérez-Jara,Lino Camprubí Pdf

This book weaves together apparently disconnected elements of Bertrand Russell’s philosophy and social activism into a coherent narrative about the acclaimed twentieth-century intellectual’s evolving stances concerning science and technology and their role in bringing either a future Golden Age or a secular Doomsday.