| Project/Area Number |
10620071
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | KYUSHU UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIMIZU Yasuhisa Graduate School. of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Associate Professor, 大学院・比較社会文化研究科, 助教授 (00170986)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
清水 靖久 九州大学, 大学院・比較社会文化研究科, 助教授 (00170986)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 1999
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1999)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
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| Keywords | the early twentieth century in Japan / peace thought / the Russo-Japanes war / autiwar wovement / imperialism / Christion socialism / Kinoshita Naoe / Lov Tolstoy |
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| Research Abstract |
This study has reexmined the peace thought at the beginning of the twentieth century in Japan in a constellation of various opinions about the Russo-Japanese war. In 1998 I studied chiefly the movement of Heiminsha focusing on the Christian socialists such as Kinoshita Naoe. In 1999 I have investigated many kinds of opinions about imperialism at the beginning of this century in order to clarify the entire constellation of opinions about the Russo-Japancese war.
It was possible to assert imperialism positively at the beginning of this century although it has been only blamed since the First World War. However, opinion leaders in Japan then were unable to assert imperialism without hesitation because it was morally blamed as a policy of aggression and scorned as an attitude of following the West or white men and because they had to worry about the precaution of Western countries.
This study has investigated such leaders as Tokutomi Soho, Takayama Chogyu, Ukita Kazutami, Yamaji Aizan and Ebina Danjo who asserted imperialism, and clarfied the various aspects of their opinions. No one asserted Japanese imperialism at the Russo-Japanese war, because this war was considered as self-defense war against Russian imperialism. But the opinions about imperialism until then had made many Japanese conscious of international power relationship and played an important part in their approval of the war as a just or inevitable war.
The thought that approved imperialism penetrated widely among Japanese then, however, the thought that denied it spread slowly on the other side. It was its expression that Tolstoy' s principle of nonresistance was accepted pretty extensively and Christian socialists based on his principle gathered together in Heiminsha and developed an antiwar movement. I am planning to publish the result of this study shortly.
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