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Life and international thought of Sone Eki: A historical study on the foreign policy line of the rightist socialists in postwar Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K13685
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field International relations
Research InstitutionNiigata University

Principal Investigator

Kanda Yutaka  新潟大学, 人文社会科学系, 教授 (70609099)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Keywords日本社会党 / 民社党 / アジア社会党会議 / 社会主義インターナショナル / 政治学 / 日本史
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project aims to complete an biographical study of Sone Eki, a politician and foreign policy expert who was in foreign service until 1945 and was one of the leaders of the rightist socialists in postwar Japan. Focusing on his thoughts on international affairs, it particularly discussed the following points. 1) Sone's policy position at the wartime Foreign Ministry. 2) Sone's role in the politics under the US occupation, especially in the Katayama Administration. 3) The goals of the rightist socialists in the "Peace Treaty debate." 4) Bridging the foreign policy divide at the time of unification of socialists in 1955. 5) Constructing the foreign policy line of the Democratic Socialist Party. 6) Factional conflicts and foreign policy debates within the DSP. The significance of this project lies in analyzing the continuity of foreign policy of the postwar left from prewar era, as well as shedding light on the foreign policy of the rightist socialists, which has rarely been discussed.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

社会党に関する先行研究においては、右派への関心は乏しい一方で、社会党がなぜあれほど左傾化し、現実路線に転換出来なかったのかという問題意識は広く見られる。また社会党の対外政策に関する先行研究は、同党の対米ないし対中ソ政策に議論を集中させてきた。右派外交論の中心人物の一人として、時に西欧社民勢力を模範としつつ現実路線を模索した曽祢の足跡を描くことは、こうした点で学術的重要性を持つ。
加えて今日の日本政治の課題は、政権交代の可能な現実的な第二勢力を形成することであり、とりわけ外交問題は重要な争点である。曽祢の長年の努力から、こうした現代的な課題へのヒントも見えてくるはずである。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2020 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (11 results)

All 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017

All Presentation (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results,  Invited: 1 results) Book (4 results)

  • [Presentation] The Murayama Statement as Socialist Policy?: The Japan Socialist Party and Postwar Reconciliation2021

    • Author(s)
      Yutaka Kanda
    • Organizer
      The KAKENHI Project of the Creation of the Reconciliation Studies and the Center for the Reconciliation Studies in Waseda University
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Sea of Japan Region in the Longue Duree: Geopolitics, Transnational Networks, and the Future of Regional Cooperation2020

    • Author(s)
      Yutaka Kanda
    • Organizer
      International Symposium 2020, "Regional Order in East Asia: Emergence, Development, and Future"
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 日本社会党の外交政策と和解――村山談話の「社会党らしさ」2019

    • Author(s)
      神田豊隆
    • Organizer
      「和解学の創成~正義ある和解を求めて~」夏合宿
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 冷戦期アジアにおける社会民主主義的地域秩序の試み――1950年代2019

    • Author(s)
      神田豊隆
    • Organizer
      新潟大学法学部東アジア地域研究プロジェクト=淡江大学日本政経研究所(共催)・日台国際ワークショップ「東アジアの地域ガバナンスと日本――20世紀国際関係史の視点」
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Connecting Internationalists and Nationalists: Japan Socialist Party's Effort to Bridge the Socialist International and the Asian Socialist Conference in the 1950s2018

    • Author(s)
      Yutaka Kanda
    • Organizer
      Seminar “Les gauches et l'international/The Left and the international arena,” Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 社会民主主義勢力の国際関係史――社会主義インターナショナル・アジア社会党会議・日本社会党――2017

    • Author(s)
      神田豊隆
    • Organizer
      グローバル・ガバナンス学会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Networking Non-Communist Socialists in Asia: The Socialist International, Asian Socialist Conference and Japan Socialist Party in the 1950s2017

    • Author(s)
      Yutaka Kanda
    • Organizer
      首都師範大学歴史学院“比較視野下的東南亜国際関係”国際学術研討会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Book] The Left and the International Arena in the 20th Century: A Transnational Political History2021

    • Author(s)
      Yutaka Kanda (co-author)
    • Publisher
      Bloomsbury
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 和解学叢書第3巻:政治外交編2021

    • Author(s)
      神田豊隆(共著)
    • Publisher
      明石書店
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Japan’s Cold War Policy and China: Two Perceptions of Order, 1960-19722020

    • Author(s)
      Yutaka Kanda
    • Total Pages
      294
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • ISBN
      9781138744394
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Japan’s Cold War Policy toward China: Two Perceptions of Order2019

    • Author(s)
      Yutaka Kanda
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • ISBN
      9781138744394
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2022-01-27  

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