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the Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance: A reading, with commentary, complete texts Kyoto School discussions "The Standpoint World History and Japan"
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the Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance: A reading, with commentary, complete texts Kyoto School discussions "The Standpoint World History and Japan"
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the Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance: A reading, with commentary, complete texts Kyoto School discussions "The Standpoint World History and Japan"
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David Williams has now produced the first objective, balanced and close interpretative reading of these three discussions in their entirety since 1943. This version of the wartime Kyoto School transcripts is neither a translation nor a paraphrase but a fuller rendering in reader-friendly English that is convincingly faithful to the spirit of the original texts. The result is a masterpiece of interpretation and inter-cultural understanding between the Confucian East and the liberal West. Seventy years after Tojo came to power, these documents of the Japanese resistance to his wartime government and policies exercise a unique claim on students of Japanese history and thought today because of their unrivalled revelatory potential within the vast literature on the Pacific War. The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance may therefore stand as the most trenchant analysis of the political, philosophic and legal foundations of the place of the Pacific War in modern Japanese history yet to appear in any language.