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DESCRIPTION:"Dilemmas of a Japanese Historian of Southeast Asia: Tatsurō Y
 amamoto (1910-2001) and the Ghost of Pan-Asianism"\n\nTakamichi Serizawa\,
  JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow\nCenter for Southeast Asian Studies\, Kyoto Univ
 ersity\n\nTatsurō Yamamoto (1910-2001)\, known as a pioneering scholar of
  Vietnam and Southeast Asian history in Japan\, once in the mid-1970’s\,
  made a speech in front of young university students in Tokyo. His speech 
 was entitled “The Orient and Japan” and was about the current unclear 
 Japanese perspectives on Asian countries and people as opposed to the past
  when Japan was once an imperial nation. Before and during WWII periods\, 
 he recalled that the Japanese had a clear national agenda of increasing we
 alth and military power so that Japan could be the country in order to lea
 d Asian countries and people. Meanwhile he did not forget to remind the st
 udents that this agenda failed because Japan committed imperial exploitati
 on\, invaded and oppressed many countries in Asia. His speech\, held durin
 g the midst of Vietnam War\, ended with his suggestion that Japan’s agen
 da today was to bring true happiness for Asian people. This suggestion rev
 eals that the “pan-Asiatic discourse” that heavily circulated during t
 he time of WWII still haunted Yamamoto’s academic thought and attitude i
 n the post-war era. This talk will analyze the dilemmas for the Japanese h
 istorian studying Southeast Asian history which were created by Japan’s 
 defeat by the US and the experience of GHQ/SCAP occupation\, which tried t
 o place Japan again on the “right track” of Western democracy.
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SUMMARY:SEAP Gatty Lecture Series
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