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Reorganization of Japanese Emperor’s historical perspective and intellectuals in postwar Japan

Jonggil Choi 1

1고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on how the criticism of Japanese Emperor’s historical perspective has continuities with the creation of a new nation in postwar Japan. The historical textbooks based on the newly proposed standards are The History of the Country. However, this textbook still contains issues such as the imperial family-centered contents and the limitation of shifting war responsibility to the military. In this regard, criticism was raised from the point of view of the formation of a subject capable of serving in the injustice of the emperor and in the postwar reform. Ishimoda Sho judged that the emperor system would be resurrected if the revolutionary power is isolated from the people even though the empire-centered regime was reformed in the new post-war political environment. The logic of Ishimoda Sho overlaps the policy of the Ministry of Education in Japan, which tried to create a new people based on nationalism.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.