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The Unfinished Business of Mourning: Maruyama Masao and Postwar Japan's Struggles with the Wartime Past

The Unfinished Business of Mourning: Maruyama Masao and Postwar Japan's Struggles with the... positions 10:1 Spring 2002 parts of his writings—his understanding of the intellectuals that he writes about—even then, my response to his writings is only one of deep respect and true admiration. I feel that I am deeply moved (kand¯ ) from the o bottom of my heart: this is something that persists no matter what others say. I once thought, with some arrogance, that even if everything written here [in Maruyama’s work] is wrong, this work is immortal ( fumetsu).2 To this scholar the content of Maruyama’s work hardly matters. His confession of absolute faith in Maruyama indicates that readings of Maruyama’s scholarship in the postwar period were more than just intellectual exercises. Many scholars—both prewar and postwar—have similarly expressed their indebtedness to Maruyama and his work.3 Maruyama’s work also appealed to readers outside traditional academia and stirred emotional responses in a nation devastated by its defeat in the Asia Pacific War. Historian Kano ¯ Masanao, for instance, talks about the generation of Japanese who returned from the war and were so impressed by his writings that they named their sons after Maruyama.4 Maruyama Masao has exerted tremendous power in the production of both intellectual paradigms and political http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions asia critique Duke University Press

The Unfinished Business of Mourning: Maruyama Masao and Postwar Japan's Struggles with the Wartime Past

positions asia critique , Volume 10 (1) – Mar 1, 2002

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2002 by Duke University Press
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1067-9847
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1527-8271
DOI
10.1215/10679847-10-1-195
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positions 10:1 Spring 2002 parts of his writings—his understanding of the intellectuals that he writes about—even then, my response to his writings is only one of deep respect and true admiration. I feel that I am deeply moved (kand¯ ) from the o bottom of my heart: this is something that persists no matter what others say. I once thought, with some arrogance, that even if everything written here [in Maruyama’s work] is wrong, this work is immortal ( fumetsu).2 To this scholar the content of Maruyama’s work hardly matters. His confession of absolute faith in Maruyama indicates that readings of Maruyama’s scholarship in the postwar period were more than just intellectual exercises. Many scholars—both prewar and postwar—have similarly expressed their indebtedness to Maruyama and his work.3 Maruyama’s work also appealed to readers outside traditional academia and stirred emotional responses in a nation devastated by its defeat in the Asia Pacific War. Historian Kano ¯ Masanao, for instance, talks about the generation of Japanese who returned from the war and were so impressed by his writings that they named their sons after Maruyama.4 Maruyama Masao has exerted tremendous power in the production of both intellectual paradigms and political

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Published: Mar 1, 2002

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