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Historian at Australian National University working on Modern Japan and twentieth century international history. Book on Kishi Nobusuke and conservatism soon.

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There is an amazing story behind this cartoon which involves internecine personnel disputes within the Ministry of Commerce and Industry; pro-Axis muckraking right-wing publishers, a hit piece by Kyōmachi Uneme (京町采女). Manchukuo, and a politician on the make in 1940 Tokyo.
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My piece on the political killing of Abe Shinzō, that delves into the long sweep of imperial and postwar Japanese history that intersects with Abe though Kishi.
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Tell me how this book is not on every syllabus for historical international relations? Really.
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I come to utterly dislike the term "puppet state." It strips away all nuances and contradictions of collaboration, and tells us even less about how collaborationist regimes changed over time. For myself the term has become an evasion of harder and messier historical questions.
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The Propaganda poster of Manchukuo, 1932-33. Manchukuo was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in China from 1932 until 1945.
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Wartime vision of Japan’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
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Some great lists of writings on Japanese empire and war are deservedly making the rounds but, for my money, one of the most significant of recent decades is conspicuously missing: Emer O'Dwyer's 'Significant Soil: Settler Colonialism and Japan's Urban Empire in Manchuria.'
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Many of the problems I have with the historiography on interwar and wartime Japan has to do with how we narrate the transitions between the 1920s and 1930s and hence, how we talk about Taishō democracy and the so-called "New Japan" of the post-WW1 era. A small thread 1/
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One of the most intriguing gaps in the Anglophone scholarship on wartime Japan is any real attempt to come to terms with the Ministry for Greater East Asia, and to take seriously its mountains of planning papers, or proposals for reorganizing the economy of postwar Asia.
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Sitting here finalising my manuscript on Kishi Nobusuke I cannot believe what has happened today. I want to take time to gather my thoughts and put them down into a longish piece on Abe that I have been thinking of writing for some time now. Now is the time.
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I have never before seen footage of the Manchurian emperor’s visit to Japan in 1940 to take part in wartime celebrations of the empire’s (imagined) 2,600th anniversary. A fascinating glimpse of the world before the fall of monarchical East Asia.
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The Kangde Emperor visiting Japan on the 2600th anniversary its founding, 1940
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Look what came across my desk today.
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One book that I cannot wait to read is Mircea Cărtărescu's 'Theodoros,' written in Romanian it follows a landscape -Wallachia, Greek Archipelago, and Ethiopia - which mirrors my family's wandering through the devastations and disasters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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And this from the pen of Will Swanton in 'The Australian,' a bottom of the barrel racial-ist screed questioning how Japanese Naomi Osaka "really" is.... then opines the Flame should have been lightened by a "true" Japanese sports star, Sadaharu Oh.
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How Japanese is Naomi Osaka?

The Olympic flame at the 1964 Tokyo Games was lit by a man born on the day Hiroshima was destroyed by a nuclear bomb. He was a Japanese gentleman plucked from obscurity to signify the rise of the...

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I am honored to see my article “The War is Not Over: Kishi Nobusuke and the National Defense Brotherhood,” published in @JJS_jrnl Like all pieces that relied on support and advice of many people over the years. What follows is a small thread. 1/
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Really looking forward to this @modernjapanhist conversation on May 9 with my ANU colleague, Simon Avenell, on his compelling and deeply researched book, “Asia and Postwar Japan: deimperialization, civic activism, and national identity.” Link below:
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@professor_jedi This is just terrible Elijah, and it makes me so angry at the state of higher education, at lives and careers upended and destroyed, at all the books and all the classes which will never be. The loss is incalculable.
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I am looking forward to this NHK documentary on the 13-year history of Imperial Manchuria (Manchukuo). An experimental state. A phantom kingdom. A monarchical redoubt in revolutionary Asia. Or crucible of Asia’s twentieth century. Probably all. And more.
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First day of the new decade. And just realized. The Amazon page for my edited volume is up!
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@shintakahashi00 Oh Shin.... this is just brutal. Visualizing all the languages cut somehow brings it all home. What a disaster.
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It is utterly dismaying that there is not a single chapter devoted to Japan. Instead what we get a throwaway chapter which combines the German and Japanese empire FOCUSED ONLY on the INTERWAR decades. What a disgrace.
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Just started reading this fascinating new work by Chris Gerteis on Cold War youth - Left and Right - who stood at the transnational nexus of Pan-Asianism, Maoism, anti-imperialism, anti-communism and ultra-nationalism.
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Very happy to be able to announce that I have been awarded a 2021 Fellowship at the National Library of Australia @nlagovau supported by the Harold S. Williams Trust for Japan Studies.
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Very much looking forward to giving this talk next week in Princeton @PrincetonEAS
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In reading the history of fascism in Japan, in its transnational, intellectual and artistic registers, one question continues to strike me for its absence: Did fascism have a different hold on different regions of Japan, especially those most connected to the empire?
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Something you don’t see anymore. The Penguin edition (1985) of Yukio Mishima’s tetralogy, ‘Sea of Fertility,’ collecting all four novels in one volume.
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It is astonishing we continue to talk about international law only from the archives of the imperial metropoles without centering original language archival voices from Hanoi, Bandung, & Cairo. We need to stop writing global history where Afro-Asia is only a stage for Europe.
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Just picked up a secondhand copy of Dower’s ‘War without Mercy.’ I had never seen this cover before, restrained and equally evocative. Captures something about the work that others did not.
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Robert Cribb is a historian's historian. And this is a pointed and devastating piece that lays bear many of the shibboleths around the exceptionalism of wartime Japan. Well worth your time.
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Why history does not disqualify Japan as an ally: a reply to Richard Cullen - Pearls and Irritations

A close alliance with Japan may or may not be in our interests. But policies driven by the prejudices of 70 years ago is even worse.

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Our reading of the cultures of protests of the 1950s and 1960s are too Tokyo-centric. As a student at Kyoto, I always loved hearing the stories - almost invariably told at night in one many bars and izakayas - of Kyoto University radical activism.
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@sachimiriho 戦後、昭和天皇は各地を回り、京都大学も訪問したが、反応はこんな感じ
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@MrKRudd What a disgrace. As a postdoc at Harvard I heard @MrKRudd speak at the Fairbanks Center. He was fiercely intelligent and formidable; willing to argue and even challenged mounted a fierce defence. Agree or disagree with him, he deserved better.
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A lot has been written on how to carry out a coup d'état, or on the success and failure of military uprisings. Much of it interminable. The most under-appreciated, yet for my money perceptive accounts, is Shillony’s ‘Revolt in Japan.’ Should be required reading.
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The Australian Financial Review should be embarrassed for publishing this revisionist piece and it should be retracted immediately. A highlight: After praising JPN colonialism in Korea the author declares: ’This is the Korea that Japan has dreamt of since the Meiji era.'
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Such a pleasant surprise to receive the offprints of my @JJS_jrnl article today. Somehow feels more real when I hold it in my hands.
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This is a painting by my daughter Zara, which was award a student art prize. The depth of the piece, it’s tone, and force of imagination, startles me. From what realm did you conjure this painting into being Zara? I am so proud of her.
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Join us on May 22 for the final in our triumvirate of seminars on the end of the Japanese. Dr. Mayuko Itoh will reflect on intimate violence experienced by women after Soviet invasion of Manchuria, during repatriation, and its spectral afterlives in postwar Japan. Link Below!
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Job interviews have a strange alchemy. Take, Ishii Mitsujirō interviewing in 1913 for the Home Ministry. Nothing went right. Just as all hope abandoned him, an interviewer inquired, ‘you drink?’ To which Ishii answered, ‘I drink folks under the table.’ He was hired on the spot.
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"...Japan will emerge as conservative, authoritarian and strongly anti-communist (on more than ideological grounds). Japan almost certainly will not become the 'bastion of democracy' envisaged by American planners..." - Harry Kern, Foreign Reports, December 1958.
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"Much that passes as idealism is disguised love of power." - Bertrand Russell.
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At our second ANU Japan seminar on May 7, Prof. Peter Mauch will reflect on a changing archival and historiographic landscape to reconsider the roles of the Army and Emperor Hirohito in driving Japanese surrender in World War II. Please register here!
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Very grateful to everyone who came along yesterday to hear this talk. For the incisive questions, I could not have asked for more. And especially good to see old and new friends. Looking forward to be back with the book!
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So, for everyone asking, here are four of the books I am reading for a state of the field review - in addition to Carter Eckerts’ recent book on Park Chung-hee.
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Hannah is more than right here. And all the excuses, prevarications, and justifications in the responses miss the point. The problem is less the contested past, than the incentives in the here and now driving Japanese officials to push a ‘correct’ reading of the past.
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It’s kind of fascinating but also disturbing to watch in real time Japanese officials pushing their version of the history of Japan’s imperialism and wartime behavior and people going along with them.
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The Naval examination award, 1939. Striking how large the continent figures in this award. And more so how the figure on the horse bears more than a passing resemblance to the cover of the Defense White Paper, 2021.
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So, today I drove out to visit the @AsiaBookroom in Canberra, whose East Asian collection I had long heard about. I could have stayed there for hours. The result below...
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Kishi Nobusuke: The Man and His Country - published by the Information Bulletin, Embassy of Japan, Canberra ACT, November, 1957.
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When the greater Middle East was the laboratory for capitalism.
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Highlights - now more than ever - the need to write the Japanese developmental and modernization state back into the global history of late capitalism. Works that focus only on the PRC are missing the picture completely.
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Zemmour’s admiration for ‘the Japanese model’ — French capital should have increased post-war labour productivity instead of postcolonial immigration — betrays how most far-right programmes are also just alternative post-histories, as if hikikomori will restore French virility.
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Sometimes Canberra can just stop you in your tracks. It felt like the stars would fall.
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A fascinating series of collected research papers on the fate - one might say the nemesis - of the proletarian parties and Japanese social democracy. Specifically important for new work on the interwar political and ideological movements that formed the Social Masses Party.
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Woke to the breaking of the dawn after such a long year… grateful, more than you could imagine.
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Very grateful to see my review of Shimizu Yuichirō @ys_jpd reassessment of the meaning of meritocracy in modern Japanese history and its role in political change and constitutional politics in Japan Review, a journal published by Nichibunken.
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A fascinating moment in Asia’s anticommunist international.
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@PeoplesHistory4 @JonPiccini I remember growing up and watching this on the television and being so proud of the union movement. Right-wing hack and radio man Neil "Mr Melbourne" Mitchell was never same after he came face to face with the workers...
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Richard Smethurst is a great historian, and one who influenced me in many ways. Here he writes with decades of erudition on the worldview of elite staff officers in the Imperial Japanese Army. Much to ponder.
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So, I will be introducing some of the @nlagovau Cold War archives and collections on transnational anticommunism in East Asia. And making some preliminary remarks about my second book project. Its only online so, everyone welcome!
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This has taken longer than I had hoped. But below, finally, are links to the recordings of our triumvirate of talks on the end of the Japanese empire. Keep an eye out later in the year for our planned series of modern history seminars on postwar Japan.
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Kishi was many things - ruthless, concerned about geopolitics, and ideological. He was a product and emblem of the past - of empire and its destruction. A survivor of violent political upheaval. To paraphrase Carter Eckert, Kishi is a spider in the web of Japanese modernization.
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This won't be the first time that Kishi Nobusuke has appeared in manga form. The 2016-2017 manga series Shippuu no Hayato depicts Kishi as a scheming villain.
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Really enjoyed reading this alongside Buchanan’s piece in Past & Present on writing global histories of World War II.
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The connections of Kyoto University to radical students of the 1960s and 1970s - not to mention in the prewar empire - is fascinating.
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The 3 stars on Kyodai’s Seibukoudo are in honour of the 3 Japanese Red Army members involved in a hijack attempt in Tel Aviv in 1972. The 2 killed were Kyoto University students.The 3rd although still alive and not a Kyoto Student also gets a star @japanesehistory
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Very proud to join the “Reimagining the Australia-Japan” at the AJRC. Thanks to my dear friend @shiroarmstrong for asking me to bring a historical lens to map out where we have been and where we are going.
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The Australia-Japan Research Centre welcomes Dr Andrew Levidis @Andrew_Levidis to the ANU. Professor Levidis will be joining the AJRC as an Honorary Lecturer.
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If you can find it, have a read of Bruce Cumings, ‘Seeing Like an Area Specialist,’ puts a lot of the changes in Asian studies and discipline in universities from the 1990s onwards into perspective.
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Ishizaka Yōjirō's "Wakai hito" was a bestseller in the 1930s yet now, sadly, is mostly forgotten. For whatever it is worth, I think Ishizaka's work remains one of the most significant sources for insights into the lives of imperial youth in the wartime Shōwa period.
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First up, I am happy to announce my forthcoming edited volume with Barak Kushner @CambridgeFames "In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire: Imperial Violence, State Destruction, and the Reordering of Modern East Asia" with @HKUPress Cover looks great!
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There is an section in Skabelund’s excellent work on the Cold War SDF that caught my eye. It involves former imperial IJA officer turned politician Tsuji Masanobu’s attack on social dancing at the National Defense Academy. Skabelund situates this opposition in terms of 1/
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@Paul_KeatingPM Scotty is ideologically incapable of giving money to the poor. He just cant do it. Here we have a man in Scott Morrison - intellectually, politically, and ideologically - unsuitable for the office of prime minister. The wrong man at the wrong time. God help us.
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Always nice to see my piece on Abe Shinzō and Kishi Nobusuke reprinted in the East Asian Quarterly alongside @SheilaSmithCFR and Soeya Yoshihide.
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Very much looking forward to taking part in Professor Barak Kushner's workshop "Justice and Injustice in East Asia, 1945 to the Present: Media, History and Politics" with @msherzodm at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.
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Finally, our @AJRC_ANU 'Reimagining the Japan Relationship' Report is out in the world! A major study which re-examines Australia-Japan relations at an extraordinary crossroads in the history of international order in East Asia.
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Long-time partners should push for regional security pact

A new report on Australia-Japan ties argues the two countries should co-operate more amid geostrategic uncertainty.

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It is the first time I have seen the continental and oceanic expanse of the Axis mapped like this. What is striking is the New Order in Europe was also a New Order in Africa. And the French Union in Indochine, a global conjuncture where the Axis actually met.
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one of the better maps I've ever seen that shows WWII and the full extent of Nazi and Japanese expansion on a global scale
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What a fascinating trans-pacific and trans-imperial history! One which touches on questions of race, empire, oceanic history, and Japanese migration to central and South America.
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While many of my dear friends are presenting at AAS in Boston, some very exciting archival discoveries have fallen into my hands and led me again to Tokyo’s Cold War ghosts.
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Meaney’s collected essays - I am struck by his comparative histories of deimperializing Japan & Australia. A relationship that serves as a lens to think through the question of Asia that hovers like a specter at the banquet to his work on Britishness and Australian Identity.
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The mantle of legitimacy. A stunning photograph of reorganized nationalist China. Reminds me of an oft overlooked reality of Japan’s New Order and wars of international renovation - its principal political aims were in China not the amorphous Asia-Pacific.
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Wang Jingwei汪精卫, head of Japan-backed Chinese puppet government, visiting the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Nanking, March 19, 1940. Photo by The Asahi Shimbun.
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Two fascinating Australian figures - Fred Schwarz and Frank Mount - whose lives and movements shed new light on anticommunist internationalism. Far from a periphery of the Cold War, Australia emerges in archives and memoirs as a hub of regional and transnational organization.
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Perhaps one of the most unexplored archives for scholars of the Japanese empire and war is the French. Which should not be surprising given the colonial empire in Indochina and its centrality in the global Second World War.
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A small hint of what is in the French archives, what has never looked at since the 1940s « Americans are doing nuclear tests on Japanese boats. ... General Ishiwara declared in front of journalists he is against the fact that the U.S. uses Japan as a base in the next war. »
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@Andrew_Levidis
Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
4 years
This is really really important - a game changer for historians of modern Japan.
@tkoyama3
小山俊樹
@tkoyama3
4 years
「「議会開設130年」を控え、憲政資料室に所蔵されている政治家の日記の電子化により、2020年中には、国立国会図書館ホームページで、公開が始まる。」という、小林和幸先生の回展総説を読んで以来、ずっとワクワクしすぎてテカってます。
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@Andrew_Levidis
Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
3 months
Gina Rowlands and John Cassavetes on the set of ‘The Killing of a Chinese Bookie’ (1976). Always gets me.
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@Andrew_Levidis
Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
4 years
We often mistakenly compare Tōjō with Axis wartime leaders, but as Asada Masafumi intriguingly observes, his leadership and governing style bore many similarities to one of his contemporaries, Chiang Kai-shek..
@StarsofCCTV
ASADA Masafumi
@StarsofCCTV
4 years
一ノ瀬俊也『東條英機ー「独裁者」を演じた男』文春新書、読了。 陸軍を権力の基盤とし、航空戦力の拡充に努め、大局よりも組織の面子にこだわる。何だか蔣介石とよく似ている。
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@Andrew_Levidis
Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
4 years
While Japanese historians have focused on transnational roots of total war, yokusankai, national defense state. Anglophone histories have moved in the opposite direction. The parting of historiogrpahies on fascism is one of the most fascinating subterranean stories of the field.
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FUKE Takahiro
@tfuke
4 years
日本史や日本思想史の分野でファシズム論はほぼ駆逐されたけど、昨今他分野でファシズムを冠した本がちらほら出てるのを見ると今後どうなるのか少し気になる。
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Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
5 years
We need a political history of the Second Sino-Japanese War. One which integrates the collaborationist regimes and their leaders as key figures in the international/civil war.
@COTCAProject
COTCA Nottingham
@COTCAProject
5 years
The Wang Jingwei and Lin Baisheng Photograph Collection, held at Stanford University's East Asia Library @StanfordLibs @CEAS_Stanford , has been digitized and is now available here:
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Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
4 months
One of the most significant workshops I have been to in a while. Events like this do not just happen. So thanks to Giulia Garbagani and @alessionaval . Particularly taken by reflections of @JNilssonWright and @SheilaSmithCFR of lives lived in history, policy, and modern Japan.
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@warstudies
War Studies
@warstudies
4 months
🇯🇵 How has Japan's strategic thinking evolved since 1945? Join @KCL_CGS for a one-day conference exploring the theme of grand strategic thinking in Japan from a historical perspective. 🗓️ 5 July, 9:00-17:30 📍Bush House Lecture Theatre 5, BH (SE) 2.09
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@Andrew_Levidis
Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
2 years
If you think the connection between Kishi and the Unification Church, or it’s nascent mass movement, International Federation for Victory Over Communism, was principally about anticommunism, then you are missing the essentially domestic goals driving their alliance.
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Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
2 years
So excited to take part in this initiative led by @yoshidama12 , a dear friend, and without doubt one of the very best historians of modern Japan and its empire-state.
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Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
3 years
Very happy to see my review of @linkhoeva Revolution Goes East finally in the wild.
@ssjj_jrnl
Social Science Japan Journal
@ssjj_jrnl
3 years
For advanced access to @Andrew_Levidis 's review of @linkhoeva 's Revolution Goes East published by @CornellPress , visit us at @ssjj_jrnl :
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Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
2 years
A perceptive and careful historical work on the era of Asian decolonization seen through the eyes of Australian diplomatists in the late-1940s and subsequent decades. A must read.
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Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
3 years
This is a really good book. One of the best I have read on the social history, private life and moral compromises of the foot soldiers of fascism. It is the affective register, where the affairs of the heart and affairs of state intersect, that strike me as the most generative.
@ClintonGodart
Clinton Godart
@ClintonGodart
3 years
This book is really good:
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Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
5 years
Interesting fact: In Sugamo Prison, The Japan Times - which carried editorials from American news - was the newspaper of choice for class-A war criminals. Kishi constantly praised it for providing a window on political divisions in the U.S. over the Tokyo Trials.
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Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
3 years
Interesting that the 'Fifteen Year War' narrative - a common trope of the Japanese historiography for decades - has now been taken up by British historians. New life the dead receive.
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Blood and Ruins by Richard Overy review — the Second World War began in 1931. Discuss

Imperialism, wrote the British political economist and publisher Leonard Woolf in 1928, has run its course “and the only question is whether it will be buried p

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@Andrew_Levidis
Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
3 months
Excited for this new book on student conscription. I was struck by the quote from Marquis Hosokawa's diary 'Behind the lines soldiers are engaged in politics and economics, while students who studied politics and economics are engaged in combat...is this the shape of total war?'
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@tkoyama3
小山俊樹
@tkoyama3
3 months
西山伸『検証学徒出陣』(吉川弘文館)を著者より頂きました。「今日の世態は誠に奇態なり」「軍人は銃後に在りて政治経済に従事し居り、政治経済を勉強したる学生が交戦に従事し...是が総力戦の姿なりや」(細川日記)。この奇態はいかに生まれ、どこへ向かったか。近年の研究成果を踏まえた決定版です。
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Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
2 years
Memories and souvenirs from postwar internment camps across Asia, circa late-1940s.
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@Andrew_Levidis
Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
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Excited to co-host with ⁦⁦ @BajiTomohito ⁩ this workshop at the bleeding edge of global historical writing and intellectual history. How can intellectual historians navigate and chart seas and oceans? If you are in Canberra on 7 Feb, come along!
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Aspects of Transpacific Intellectual Entanglements: Between Western modernity and decolonization |...

東京大学大学院総合文化研究科は、「グローバル・スタディーズ・イニシアティヴ（Global Studies Initiative, GSI）」構想を掲げ、グローバルな俯瞰力と世界諸地域の文化や社会の多様性を理解する能力を併せ持つ人材を育成することで、グローバル化が引き起こす諸問題に挑戦します。

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Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
3 years
For those who missed it, my talk last month at ANU Japan Institute, 'The Opening of the Right-Wing's Eyes: Tsukui Tatsuo, State Socialism, and the New China of the 1950s' is now online. Thanks @Lauren_ANU
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Japan Seminar Series - The Opening of the Right-wing's Eyes

Welcome to the third seminar of the ANU Japan Institute Japan Seminar Series. The Japan Seminar Series (2021-2023) is supported by the Australian Government through…

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@Andrew_Levidis
Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
2 years
Some new and interesting titles on postwar/postimperial Japanese political lives, and the scandals that defined an era in Kasumigaseki. Thinking a lot on these as I try to make sense of the contemporary violence. Going back to go forward.
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Andrew Levidis
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Merci pour cette invitation qui m'honore infiniment. So looking forward to returning to Paris and presenting this research on anticommunist internationalism in East Asia from the 1930s to 1970s.
@Royalinalco
Alexandre Roy
@Royalinalco
2 years
Conférence spéciale jeudi prochain à @Inalco avec @Andrew_Levidis au sujet de l'internationalisme anticommuniste en Asie orientale entre les années 1930 et 1970 ' @Inst_IFRAE et @uni_uparis
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Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
4 years
Come across some fascinating material on Kodama Yoshio in the Australian archives. Little known fact: industrialist Ishihara Hiroichirō - known for his patronage of radicals during the reformist upheavals in the 1930s - was also the richest suspected war criminal.
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Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
4 years
One of the most generative and intriguing articles I read this year was by Reto Hofmann on the afterlives of ex-communist Nabeyama Sadachika and his role in anti-communist activism in transwar Japan and East Asia. Much to ponder here.
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Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
2 years
In 1956 the influential Thai political figure, Sang Phatthanothai, sent his children, then aged nine and twelve, to live in Beijing under Zhou Enlai’s care. They remained there for more than a decade, growing up among the children of high-ranking party cadres, and 1/
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Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
11 months
Fascinating piece. I have always wondered about the extent of archival destruction in Japan’s continental empire. The flames are a great leveler. How do archives vanish and survive the breaking down or death of an empire? And how are they subsequently rediscovered? And by whom?
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Adam Cathcart
@adamcathcart
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"As the Second World War concluded, the documents of Japan's continental empire largely went up in flames...Tada Fumio (多田文男, 1900–1978), a geographer, spirited away a large map collection detailing Japan's once-massive empire." #WWII #empire
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Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
3 years
Almost finished.
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Andrew Levidis
@Andrew_Levidis
5 years
The global history of the Cold War as seen through the "yearnings for freedom in Asia, Africa, and Latin America from around the time of the post-WW II decolonization to the late 1970s." Unmissable.
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