A Historical Study on Utsunomiya Tokuma's Thought : Focusing upon Postwar Period ofWorld War II until 1949, His Launch into Politics

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  • LIU, Shoujun
    Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University

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  • 宇都宮徳馬の思想史的研究 : 戦後から1949年の政界進出まで
  • ウツノミヤ トク バ ノ シソウシテキ ケンキュウ : センゴ カラ 1949ネン ノ セイカイ シンシュツ マデ

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Utsunomiya Tokuma is known as one of the outstanding liberalists among Japanese conservative politicians, who devoted himself to diplomacy to restore foreign relations between Japan and communist nations such as the Soviet Union, China and North Korea. He also was a unique liberal intellectual who, once having joined the Japanese Communist Party before the Second World War, going through "conversion" from communism, got engaged in business activity while developing public criticism on bureaucracy-controlled politics. Although such a pass of thoughts of Utsunomiya might be viewed as typical of Japanese intelectuals towards politics, socialism as well as the ideal of peace, only few reviews based on primary sources have attempted so far. In particular, studies on his postwar activities are scarce. On the basis of this understanding, Utsunomiyaʼs thoughts and acrivities from the end ofWWII through his political commitment to the congress in 1949 are examined in this paper. Special attentions are paid to his policical view of the post-war reconstruction of Japanese ecomony and its historical uniquness, while taking in consideration his criticism in the pre-war period onto the bureaucratism and dominance of military in Japanese government.

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