2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The War of Information about a member of the wartime Japanese Embassy in Germany: Shigeki Sakimura and his Desertion
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23530170
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
KATO Tetsuro 早稲田大学, 政治経済学術院, 教授 (30115547)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 情報戦 / 亡命 / 崎村茂樹 / 荒木光太郎 / 日独関係 / 在独日本大使館 / インターナショナル / 社会民主主義 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study focused on Dr. Shigeki SAKIMURA, former lecturer of economics of the University of Tokyo and a staff of the Japanese Embassy in wartime Germany. He defected to Stockholm from Berlin in 1943-44. He was reported by "New York Times"(May 1, 1944) and "The Time" (June 5, 1944) as the Japanese political refugee who first spoke out the defeat of Nazi-Germany and Imperial Japan. I researched his defection and activities in the wartime at the National Archives in Germany, Sweden, Britain and the USA, and found his life history, his works as economist, and the fact that he touched the social democratic "Little International" in Stockholm which was organized by Willy Brandt (postwar Prime Minister of West Germany and the Nobel Prize wiinner), Gunner & Alva Myrdal (Nobel Prize winners) , Bruno Kreisky (postwar Prime Minister of Austria) etc. I wrote these history in the article "International Solidarity of Social Democracy in Stockholm 1944."
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