{"id":1096,"date":"2022-02-14T10:54:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T01:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/?post_type=research&p=1096"},"modified":"2022-07-12T15:21:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T06:21:43","slug":"reexamining-the-postwar","status":"publish","type":"research","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/research\/1096\/","title":{"rendered":"Reexamining the Postwar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Until now I have led collaborative research projects on such topics as \u201cRethinking Postwar Japanese Culture,\u201d \u201cArtists in the Mass Media,\u201d \u201cSocial Movements and Cultural Production in Japan during the East Asian Cold-War,\u201d and \u201cThe Scars of Post-war Japan.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

With the exception of \u201cArtists in the Mass Media,\u201d all are projects related to the culture and movements of the period we call \u201cpostwar.\u201d My specialty was originally modern Japanese literature, and my starting point was the study of modern poetry. My first single-authored book was on Hagiwara Sakutar\u014d. Partly because Hagiwara was most active in Taish\u014d Japan, I am still drawn to Taish\u014d more than to any other period.<\/p>\r\n

When recently I was commissioned by the Arishima Takeo Society to speak and write about Arishima\u2019s reception of Whitman and Carpenter, I was reminded of the joys of reflecting on this period. However, on taking up my post at Nichibunken, I made a conscious effort to target my research at the postwar.<\/p>\r\n

Moreover, I have sought not to confine my work to the field of postwar literature. Rather, I have aimed to construct a space for more \u201ccomprehensive\u201d discussion, or at least a space where all disciplines can interrelate. If we allow that the Taish\u014d period\u2014the fashion now is to speak rather of an \u201cinterwar\u201d period\u2014opened up a quasi-idyllic experiential space within Japanese culture, the postwar is, for me, a much rawer space, accompanied by raw pain and pleasure.<\/p>\r\n

It is clear that a powerful inner desire directed me\u2014as I entered life\u2019s last quarter\u2014toward this series of research projects. The members of our research group have all participated with a powerful sense of motivation. This is no doubt because they have superimposed their own distinct \u201cpersonal time,\u201d as I have too, on to their individual projects. Our final project \u201cThe Scars of Post-war Japan\u201d will be completed with an international symposium in February 2022, and Rinsen Shoten will soon publish the collected papers as the fruition of the project. I am confident you will not be disappointed!<\/p>\r\n

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Essay collections published so far.
Sengo Nihon o yomikaeru<\/em> (Re-reading Japan\u2019s Postwar) (6 vols.). Rinsen Shoten, 2018\u22122019.
Sengo Nihon bunka saik<\/em>\u014d<\/em> (Rethinking Postwar Japanese Culture). Sanninsha, 2019.
Taik<\/em>\u014d<\/em> bunkashi <\/em>(Countercultural Histories). \u014csaka Daigaku Shuppankai, 2021.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":1095,"template":"","class_list":["post-1096","research","type-research","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/research"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}