西村京太郎〈太平洋戦争もの〉の特攻批判

DOI
  • 横山 孝一
    群馬工業高等専門学校　人文科学系・比較文学

書誌事項

タイトル別名
  • Kyotaro NISHIMURA's "the Pacific War" NovelsCriticizing <i>Tokko</i> Suicide Attacks

抄録

Kyotaro NISHIMURA (1930-2022), one of Japan's greatest mystery novelists, was also one of the last students at Tokyo Army Cadet School, who would have died young for the Emperor if the war against the Allies had continued. Before revealing this fact in his autobiography The War for a 15 Year-Old (15-Sai no Sensou) in 2017, NISHIMURA had got more and more earnestly engaged in writing novels about the Pacific War, where he severely criticized General Tojo again and again as a vicious leader of the Japanese Military as well as its inhuman Tokko suicide attacks, while idealizing American counterpart's humanitarianism. Which shows that NISHIMURA proved to be a typical Japanese intellectual deeply influenced by American ideals. In fact, in his last novel published in August, 2022, he confessed that Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) was his favorite movie.

収録刊行物

  • 群馬高専レビュー

    群馬高専レビュー 42 (0), 15-28, 2023

    独立行政法人 国立高等専門学校機構群馬工業高等専門学校

詳細情報 詳細情報について

  • CRID
    1390018207786983168
  • DOI
    10.51030/krev.42.0_15
  • ISSN
    24339776
    02886936
  • 本文言語コード
    ja
  • データソース種別
    • JaLC
  • 抄録ライセンスフラグ
    使用可

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