The history textbook controversy and nationalism

Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 24-29

  Masanori, Nakamura ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPOLITICS; HISTORICAL REPRESENTATION; NATIONALISM; TEXTBOOK;

JAPAN;

EID: 0031690241     PISSN: 00074810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14672715.1998.10411040     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Hagiwara Sakutaro, Nihon Seishinshi Josetsu (An introduction to the histoiy of the Japanese mentality) (Tokyo: Kinokuniya Shoten, 1966).
2. Fujioka Nobukatsu, Ojoku no kin-gendaishi (Shameful modern history) (Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 1996).
3. Asahi Shinbun, March 31, 1997.
4. Jugun Ianfu (The comfort women) (Tokyo: Iwanami, 1995).
5. Jihyo, May 1997.
6. Fujioka, Shameful Modem History, p. 52.
7. See my Kingendaishi o do miru ka: Shiba shikan o tou (Assessing modern and contemporary Japanese history: An inquiry into the historical perspective of Shiba Ryotaro) (Tokyo: Iwanami, 1997), Iwanami booklet, no. 427.
8. Sakamoto Ryoma (1835-1867) was an important figure in Japan's move from feudalism to modernity because of his modern vision and negotiating skills.
9. Shiba Ryotaro, Sekai no naka no Nihon (Japan in the world) (Tokyo: Chuo Bunko, 1996).
10. Shiba Ryotaro, Kono kuni no katachi (The shape of this country) (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 1990), p. 4.
11. From Saka no ue no kumo (Reaching for the sky) (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 1969-1972).
12. Shiba, The Shape of This Country, pp.181-86.
13. See translation of Yoshino Sakuzo's essay "On Demonstration" (Chuo Koron, 1914) in David J. Lu, ed., Japan, A Documentary History. Vol. 2. The Late Tokugawa Period to the Present (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1997), pp. 377-83.
14. Uesugi Satoshi, "Debate with the Assassins of Memory," Kikan: Senso Sekinin Kenkyu (Quarterly War Responsibility Research), spring 1997.