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第28回GJS講演会 Filling the "Spiritual Vacuum": The Educational Legacy of Occupation Reforms in Japan

日時: 2019年10月25日(金)13:00~15:30
会場: 東京大学東洋文化研究所
大会議室(3階)
発表者: ジョリオン・トーマス(ペンシルベニア大学 宗教学部 助教授)
藤原聖子(コメント、東京大学人文社会系研究科)
西村明(コメント、東京大学人文社会系研究科)
鍾以江(司会、東京大学東洋文化研究所)
使用言語: 英語
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発表要旨:
Americans justified Occupation-era reforms in Japan by claiming that post-defeat Japanese society was a "spiritual vacuum." For example, Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur used this phrase to advocate converting the entire Japanese population to Christianity. But the Americans were not alone in thinking that Japanese people were spiritually bereft. Influential Japanese elites also assumed that defeat had loosed Japan from its spiritual moorings and that Japanese citizens were now morally decadent and spiritually adrift. From the Occupation (1945–52) up through the early 1960s, these claims about Japan's spiritual decline featured in a series of debates about introducing morality education in Japanese public schools. Drawing on publications from the Japan Teachers' Union, the Ministry of Education, and various political pressure organizations, this talk shows that the Occupation-era concept of the "spiritual vacuum" continued to shape debates over religious education, morality, and patriotism long after the occupiers left.
 

プログラム:
13:00-13:50 講演(ジョリオン・トーマス)
13:50-14:10 コメント(藤原聖子)
14:10-14:30 コメント(西村明)
14:30-14:50 応答(ジョリオン・トーマス)
14:50-15:30 質疑討論

当日の様子

主催:東京大学国際総合日本学ネットワーク(GJS)
共催:共催:東京大学東洋文化研究所(IASA)
問い合わせ:gjs[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp