'Love thy emperor': Tsuda Sōkichi's views on 'Tennō' and 'Minzoku'
Taylor & Francis on behalf of the British Association for Japanese Studies
Japan Forum
October 200820(3)
DOI:10.1080/09555800802370125
Authors:
Joel Joos
University of Kochi
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Abstract
Japan's immediate postwar intellectual landscape was a rough and variable one. The left acquired a position of dominance in the scholarly world, in which criticism of the past played a major role. Tsuda, a leading historian on ancient society and a 'dissenting' liberal before the war, was expected to take sides with the progressive camp after the war, but did not. He voiced support for the emperor and met with repeated criticism by the left. In his own right, he helped to shape a conservative consensus that gained dominance after fifteen years of turmoil, a consensus however that circumvented the crucial issues of cultural and political tradition as well as its immediate past, rather than face it straightforwardly.
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