2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The political system of the modern Japan state as a nation- empire ; Synthetic analysis on the deployment of the politico-legal system and theory
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12620079
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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 | KYOTO UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
YAMAMURO Shinichi Kyoto University, Institute for Research in Humanities, Professor, 人文科学研究所, 教授 (10114703)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2003
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| Keywords | nation-empire / colony management / compound state / plural legal system / chain of thoughts |
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| Research Abstract |
Regarding the particularity of the Japanese nation-state formation, it is necessary to consider the intersections of the introduction of Western logic and institutions with prescriptions inherited from established social institutions in Japan, as well as intellectual links to the rest of East Asia. At the same time, however, herein lies a perplexing problems. That is to say, how are we to also understand the fact that this same Meiji state possessed colonies in Asia just as the West did. In my view, studies of the nation-state up to the present, have completely avoided addressing the problem of the nation-state as a possessor of colonial territories.
It is especially imperative to consider the significance of the Meiji state's duality : namely that is held colonial possessions while in the process of becoming a nation-state, and that even while remaining in what might be called its infantile form, it became a colonial empire.
In this research I will proceed from such a perspective to consider how the experience of nation-state formation, which began with the unification of different ethnicities within Japan, expanded and adapted itself to the colonial situation.
I wish to clarify the particular character of Meiji state through attention to its double nature as both a nation-state as a "nation-empire" (kokumin teikoku). At that point, the project will be to explain through the framework called the "chain of thoughts", the process by which theories and systems of law and politics moved from the West to Japan and from Japan to China and Korea.
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Research Products
(2 results)
