@andrewinfukuoka
Teaching Japanese History at Kyushu University. 1960s student protests in Kyushu. Japanese colonialism in Korea, Manchuria. Editor: "The Path and the Gate" "Education . . . Modern Korea, 1875-1945" Reviews editor: Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
Saishu Satoru 最首悟 has passed away. He was a was a biologist/philosopher. He was a Todai 助手 Zenkyoto leader, arrested at Yasuda. Later a Minamata-byo expert. Wrote widely about scientific and medical ethics, became an advocate for handicapped people.
Japan is facing many of the same existential crises as America. So why hasn’t Japan voted in someone like the American president in? blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/america-is...
米軍F-4ファントム機墜落事件（1968年6月2日）の57周年集会に参加する。6月15日（日）13:30-16:30に早良市民センターで開催される。当時の写真を展示する形で参加する予定です。また、当時の学生運動に参加された方々による反戦メッセージの発表も行われる。ご関心のある方はぜひお越しください。
Event: 57th anniversary of the crash of a US Air Force F-4 Phantom into Kyushu University (1968.6.2), held June 15, 13:30-16:30, Sawara Shimin Center
Spent lunch looking at the exhibits in the Ritsumeikan Peace Museum 立命館国際平和ミュージアム. I asked, Who paid for all of this strong anti-war messaging? I found out that Ritsu hired many of the leftists fired from Kyoto U. in 1933, hired Suekawa to be U. president in 1945, and has a long leftist tradition.
Giving a paper on the pre-1968 history of Kyushu University's student movement, at the "Re-examining Japan's Cold War" conference at Ritsumeikan U. in Kyoto.
After release, he was able to reenter Kyudai, and eventually became a law department professor, and ran for Fukuoka governor. He lost, but helped to stop the attempt to build a new Fukuoka airport. Fascinating life!
I interviewed a former student who created a Kyudai branch of the Senki-ha 戦旗派 Bund faction in 1970, a wannabe Red Army. He was arrested for participating in a Molotov-cocktail-throwing demonstration in Tokyo in 1972, served almost 3 years in jail.
Spent a fascinating afternoon interviewing Takagi Toru 高木徹, a former leader in the revolutionary party 中核派, who was active in Kyushu leftist movements in 1959-1969. He was very kind to allow me to pepper him with many questions.
I summarize recent publications in Mormon literature and arts, including some great new stories and a novel, a major national film with Mormon characters and belief at its center, and a landmark LDS art critical reader.
Clever!
Cool concept for s story.
Ouch, that is painful.
京都大学人文研シンポジウム 「ニューレフトは誰と闘ったのか？日本管理社会とポスト70年ん代の抵抗」. 発表者：小杉亮子, Chelsea Szendi Schieder, Christopher Gerteis, William Andrews, 安藤丈将, 福家崇洋, Mahon Murphy, Till Knaudt.
Excellent conference at Kyoto University. “Who did the New Left fight against?” Many of the leading scholars in the field, taking the story well beyond Tokyo and 1968-69.
A symposium on the New Left in Japan at Kyoto University on November 30. See you there!
Wow, that looks great. I'll be there! I started a new project earlier this year, studying the student movement of the late 60s and early 70s at Kyushu University/Fukuoka area, interviewing many former participants. It will be great to meet other scholars in the field. Thanks for posting this.
A great introduction to an important historian, Harvard's Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, her work ... and her quote, "Well behaved women seldom make history."
projects.iq.harvard.edu/laurelx/well...
Yes, the sakura trees in my backyard (Fukuoka), that normally blossom in March, have several flowers coming out this last week. Is that happening all over?
Hi William. I taught a graduate seminar on postwar student+ activism in Japan, 1945-1975, and we read several chapters from Dissenting Japan. It is such a valuable, informative book, thank you! I appreciate how you have updated many of the stories on your blog. throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com
The Chūkaku-ha people were quite relaxed and fairly open in their conversation. This compares to the much more guarded reception I got from the Kakumaru-ha people. To be fair, I showed up at the 革マル派 meeting unannounced, while I had made an appointment with the 中核派 people.
I interviewed two full-time members (常任/職業革命家) of the radical Chūkaku-ha in Fukuoka (中核派福岡地域委員) at their office, talked about the history, structure and activities or the party. I interviewed some 革マル派 a few months ago, and had lunch with a former 解放派 member this week, so I get radical sect bingo.
Heidi Naylor reviews "A Craving for Beauty: The Collected Writings of Maurine Whipple", which I co-edited.
"The life of Maurine Whipple, author of The Giant Joshua, is one of the saddest stories in LDS literature . . . The volume is a treasure trove."
www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/cau...
Fall 2024 Dialogue also includes:
Poetry by Sharlee M. Glenn, @thmazing.bsky.social, Charles Inouye, D.A. Cooper
Reviews of:
A Craving for Beauty: The Collected Writings of Maurine Whipple (Heidi Naylor)
Mikayla Thatcher, Beehive Girl (Brittany Nash)
Theric Jepson, Just Julie’s Fine (Alison Brimley)
The Fall 2024 issue of *Dialogue* is here! Dive into essays, poetry, and art exploring themes of faith, resilience, and social change.
It includes:
William Morris, Strait is the Way (fiction, time travel as a spiritual gift)
www.dialoguejournal.com/issues/fall-...
Nathan Kitchen, the former president of Affirmation, introduces his new memoir, The Boughs of Love: Navigating the Queer Latter-day Saint Experience During an Ongoing Restoration, which was published by BCC Press earlier this month. www.associationmormonletters.org/2024/11/nath...
Kyudai Archives: an excellent repository of materials donated by former students and teachers.
2. Japanese colonial education in Korea and Manchuria. Second year of a Kaken grant to study colonial education institutions in China, but it has been hard to get into the China libraries 植民地朝鮮、「満州国」の教育研究
I have been talking to several former Zenkyōtō, Beheiren, and 解放派 activists, a former Chukaku-ha leader, and visited a Kakumaru-ha meeting. I need to find more former 民生/JCPs, and more non-political students. I am trying to get the story from all sides, before we lose more of the former students.
My research interests:
1. Japan’s 1960s/70s student movements in Kyushu, esp. Kyushu University. I am interviewing former students of all stripes, asking about motivations and activities. After years of studying early 20th c, it is great to do interviews with living witnesses. 九州の学生運動, 大学紛争, 市民運動
So far I have just read seven chapters, the opening and closing framing sets of chapters, and the Nanjing, Yasukuni, and atomic bomb chapters. Maybe some of the middle chapters on specific atrocities have value, but what I have read so far does not give me hope.
*Makes big claims for original research, but it is overwhelming a regurgitation of faulty English military histories like Edgerton’s “Warriors Of The Rising Sun”
*Often when I checked the sources, he misrepresented them. For example: misrepresenting Bob Wakabayashi on Nanjing and Yasukini (n. 1378)