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Japan's Past, Japan's Future
Saburo, Ienaga; Minear, Richard H.
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Description for Japan's Past, Japan's Future
paperback. This autobiography of historian, Ienaga Saburo, traces his childhood, education, wartime experiences, academic career and two major battles that occupied his later years. One was the fight against the relocation of Tokyo University of Education; the other was the fight against certification. Series: Asian Voices. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJ; BG; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 147 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
'Win or lose— What matter? We fight for freedom of spirit.' Thus writes Ienaga Saburo, preeminent Japanese historian and courageous plaintiff in three lawsuits (1965D1997) against the government seeking to end Ministry of Education OcertificationO of textbooks, which even today constrains discussion of Japan's actions in China and elsewhere in the Pacific. The cases arose specifically from government censorship of Ienaga's forthright textbook accounts of the Pacific War and of such controversial events as the Nanjing massacre. The questions he has forced into the public arena are central both to the nature of Japanese democracy and to issues of war ... Read more
'Win or lose— What matter? We fight for freedom of spirit.' Thus writes Ienaga Saburo, preeminent Japanese historian and courageous plaintiff in three lawsuits (1965D1997) against the government seeking to end Ministry of Education OcertificationO of textbooks, which even today constrains discussion of Japan's actions in China and elsewhere in the Pacific. The cases arose specifically from government censorship of Ienaga's forthright textbook accounts of the Pacific War and of such controversial events as the Nanjing massacre. The questions he has forced into the public arena are central both to the nature of Japanese democracy and to issues of war ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Asian Voices
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742509894
SKU
V9780742509894
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About Saburo, Ienaga; Minear, Richard H.
Ienaga Saburo (1913-), now retired, was a professor at Tokyo University of Education from 1944 to 1977 and the author of dozens of books (several translated into English, German, French, Spanish, and Russian) on Buddhist thought, on art, and on social and intellectual history. He remains one of Japan's _ and the world's _ foremost intellectuals. Richard H. Minear is ... Read more
Reviews for Japan's Past, Japan's Future
Out of one man's frailty of health and youthful failure to resist aggressive war came a lifetime of courageous protest against the power of the state to control freedom of thought in postwar Japan. Ienaga tells of his decades-long court battle on behalf of truth in school textbooks in this modest but moving memoir of a dedicated 'historian of conscience.' ... Read more