"Postwar Japan on the Brink: Militarism, Colonialism, Yasukuni Shrine"

An episode of the CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [video] podcast, hosted by The Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago, titled ""Postwar Japan on the Brink: Militarism, Colonialism, Yasukuni Shrine"" was published on March 6, 2007 and runs 117 minutes.

March 6, 2007 ·117m · CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [video]

Summary

Professor Takahashi's writings, including his 2005 bestseller, The Yasukuni Issue, make unmistakably clear that the role of the Shrine is antithetical to democratic values in Japan and to reconciliation with Asia, which requires acknowledgment of the harms inflicted through colonialism and war. The subject of his lecture is Japan at a crossroads today, its hard-won postwar democratic values at stake as never before. Professor Takahashi teaches philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo. He specializes in contemporary European philosophy and has been particularly interested in the ethical aspects of the work of Jacques Derrida. Sponsored by the Japan Committee of the Center for East Asian Studies and the Center for International Studies.

Episode Description

Professor Takahashi's writings, including his 2005 bestseller, The Yasukuni Issue, make unmistakably clear that the role of the Shrine is antithetical to democratic values in Japan and to reconciliation with Asia, which requires acknowledgment of the harms inflicted through colonialism and war. The subject of his lecture is Japan at a crossroads today, its hard-won postwar democratic values at stake as never before. Professor Takahashi teaches philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo. He specializes in contemporary European philosophy and has been particularly interested in the ethical aspects of the work of Jacques Derrida. Sponsored by the Japan Committee of the Center for East Asian Studies and the Center for International Studies.