The Geopolitics of the Interwar Period : Soseki Natsume's Two Disciples and Their "America"(<Special Issue>Interaction between Society and Literature in the Age of Modernism)

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  • <戦間期>の地政学 : 漱石山脈のアメリカ認識(<特集>モダニズム期における社会と芸術の<交通>)
  • 〈戦間期〉の地政学--漱石山脈のアメリカ認識
  • セン カンキ ノ チセイガク ソウセキ サンミャク ノ アメリカ ニンシキ

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How did the Japanese intellectuals of the interwar period respond to America, a new power which had come to dominate the world instead of the declining European countries? In an attempt to answer the question, here I will examine the discourses on America left by the two intellectuals, Kohei Akagi (or Tadataka Ikezaki) and Yoshishige Abe. Both of them played a major role in the formation of Soseki Natsume's group, but they had quite opposite careers after the war; while Akagi was imprisoned as a war criminal, Abe became an education minister and was engaged in negotiations with America for educational policy. As will be shown here, the geopolitical configurations of the interwar and postwar Japan-U.S. relations are encapsulated both in their views of America and in their actual experiences.

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