Socialism, liberalism, and Marxism, 1901–1931

Duus, Peter; Scheiner, Irwin

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“…And most of them, although perhaps unintentionally, kept segregating the patients. For example , Maruyama Yutaka (丸山豊 1915-1989, who advised on freestyle poetry in the October 1955 issue of Kikuchino, made the following comment:…”

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Kin-Pong, a Master's graduate of both Hong Kong Baptist University and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, is currently writing his PhD thesis about the relation between history and literature through close-reading historical fictions both in Japanese and English. His research interests include Asian literatures, historical novels and comparative literature. During his leisure time, he writes poems and fiction in various languages, and translates poems into English. His latest project is to complete a Japanese novel of about three hundred thousand words.

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“…The notions of kokutai as deployed by Meiji bureaucrats and scholars skillfully drew on the moral and emotional valences of family and filial piety (trust, love, and respect for one's parents) to specifically combat the effects of individualism and to promote a natural affinity between individual and national polity. This articulation of the polity as united around a basis of civic virtue and human relatedness treaded into moral and psychological terrain (Barshay 1992, 371-73;Duus and Scheiner 1998;Gluck 1985, 120-21, 124-27;Hardacre 1989;Koschmann 1981-82, 610-12;Wakabayashi 1986, 13-15). 10 Framers of the constitution hoped to imbue Japan's new modern state with the deeply felt meaning that they believed Christianity had provided to modern European nation-states.…”

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“…Under Meiji constitutional imperialism, political rights were granted through national belonging, rather than as natural rights inhering in the individual. Through the rehabilitation of the emperor in the founding of the modern state, the government fashioned a notion of national community or "national body" (kokutai) that skillfully drew on deeply rooted folk ideologies of filial piety in the attempt to forge a kin-like identification with the nation, and to create shared morality and civic virtue (Duus and Scheiner 1998;Gluck 1985, 120-21, 124-27;Siemes 1966, 5-7, 33-34).…”

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Robert Bellah's Search for Community and Ethical Modernity in Japan Studies

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2016

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This article explores Robert Bellah's engagement with Japan in formulating his communitarian critique of American individualism. Bellah's early contribution to post–World War II modernization studies,Tokugawa Religion: The Cultural Roots of Modern Japan, embraced the Weberian framework of social development, but it also described a system that departed from Weber's narrative of liberalization and rationalization in important ways. Bellah argued that in early modern Japan, the profit motive was contained by social obligations and ethical rules. Through his explorations of Japan, Bellah articulated a critique of liberal individualism, drawing on Japanese cultural nationalism in his search for a modern, capitalist system that could be contained by overarching cultural and moral values. One finds a surprising resonance between Bellah's ideal of American “civil religion” and the ideas of interwar philosopher Watsuji Tetsurō and Watsuji's own critique of liberalism and popular democracy as lacking cultural foundations. Bellah's engagement with Watsuji reveals the tensions within Bellah's thought and in his subsequent call for community in America as a means of overcoming the excesses of American individualism. This article considers both the contributions and the limits of Bellah's attempt to invoke Japan as an alternative modernity in Japan studies.

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“…Themes from the seventies included notions of Japanese cultural and social homogeneity, group harmony and consensus, and a natural order of hierarchy. Influential authors of that period include Takeo Doi (discussed above) and Chie Nakane (1970), known for her representations of 11 Pre-World War II debates on modernism are discussed in Pyle (1989), Duus and Scheiner (1988), and Najita and Harootunian (1988). Postwar modernisation theories were a counter to Marxism (see Koschmann 1993:412-414;Gordon 1993:454).…”

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Maturation and Personhood in Wellington, New Zealand and Shizuoka, Japan

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<p>This thesis is a comparative study of maturation and personhood in two modern societies: Wellington, New Zealand and Shizuoka, Japan. It examines the interrelations between cultural and ideological constraints and pragmatic choice in the maturation of young people. It explores how concepts of personhood and 'becoming a person' affect the decisions and choices made by young people of senior high school age and upward as they negotiate transitions toward fuller social personhood. It demonstrates how modernity carries different implications for young people in Wellington and Shizuoka despite large areas of commonality. In terms of the current debate concerning the nature of modernity, it is supportive of multiple modernities. The thesis argues that 'becoming adult' is central to young people's maturation in Wellington whereas in Shizuoka maturation involves sequential transitions through time. The different perceptions of 'adulthood' in Wellington and of transitional change in Shizuoka are analysed in relation to a number of themes. These themes include ideas of the self/person, the significance of gender, concepts of independence, and relations between self and others; the importance of school, part-time work, tertiary education, employment and careers; and orientations toward the family, leaving home, marriage and the future. The thesis argues that the distinctiveness of each society may be found at the interface between sociocultural knowledge of what makes a person and the construction of self. It suggests that the direction of transformations in each society results from choices and decisions that attempt to reconcile socoiocultural ideals and personal desires. This approach is one that leads to a better appreciation of fundamental differences between modern societies.</p>

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Socialism, liberalism, and Marxism, 1901–1931

Cited by 18 publications

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Robert Bellah's Search for Community and Ethical Modernity in Japan Studies

Maturation and Personhood in Wellington, New Zealand and Shizuoka, Japan

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