USHIMURA Kei (More info)

Books

2008: Tokyo Saiban wo Tadashikuyomu (An Accurate Reading of the Tokyo Trial), (with Yoshinobu HIGURASHI), Bungeishunju.
2006: “Senso sekinin”ron no Shinjitsu —Sengo Nihon no Chitekitaiman wo Danzu (The Issue of the Discourses on “War Responsibility” —Judging the Intellectual Negligence of the Post-war Japan) , PHP kenkyusho.
2004: Saikou “Seikinoisho” to Tokyo Saiban —Tainichi Senpansaiban no Seishinshi (The Testament of the Century and the Tokyo War Crimes Trial Reconsidered —The Intellectual History of the Japanese War Crimes Trials ), PHP kenkyusho.; “Shosha no Sabaki” ni Mukiatte —Tokyo Saiban wo Yominaosu (Confronting the “Victors’ Justice” —Rereading the Tokyo War Crimes Trial), Chikuma-shobo.
2003: Beyond the “Judgment of Civilization”: The Intellectual Legacy of the Japanese War Crimes Trials, 1946-49. Translated by Steven J. Ericson, The International House of Japan. (Being the original author, I checked the translation.)
2001: “Bunmei no Sabaki” wo Koete —Tainichi Senpansaiban Dokkai no Kokoromi (Beyond “the Trial of Civilization” —A Reading of War Crimes Trials Brought to Japan), Chuokoron-shinsha.
1997: Hitoride Manaberu Tofuru(with other authors) (TOEFL: Learn By Yourself), Nitto Shoin.; Honyaku no Houhou(with other authors) (Methods of Translation), University of Tokyo Press.
1994: Touzai no Shisoutousou(with other authors) (Conflicts of Ideas: East and West), Chuokoron-sha.
1987: Gaikokujin niyoru Nihonron no Meicho (with other authors)(Introductions to Classics on Japan by Foreigners), Chuoukoron-sha.

Articles

2010: “Ishihara Kanji in the Context of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial”, Nichibunken Newsletter 80, pp.3-4
2009: “A Rereading of the Symposium Entitled ‘Overcoming the Modern’: Unconscious Links in Japanese Discourse on Civilization or the Modern”, Interpretations of Japanese Culture: Views from Russia and Japan
2008: “The ‘Class A War Criminal’ Syndrome: Changing Historical Consciousness in Present Day Japan”, Rien Segers ed. A New Japan for the Twenty-First Century, Routledge
2007: “Discourses on and against Civilization in Pre-war Japan”, Cairo Conference on Japanese Studies; “Pal’s ‘Dissentient Judgment’ Reconsidered -Some Notes on Japanese Responses to the Opinion” Japan Review 19.
2005: “War and Literature in Japan”, Bulletin of Meisei University 13.; “Kyoyokyoiku to Hikakubungaku no Sekimu” (Liberal Education and the Responsibility of Comparative Literature), Hikakubungakukenkyu 85.; “Minamijujisei ni Rekishi wo Manabu” (Learning History in a Musical—the Significance of Southerncross directed by Asari Keita), Voice, April issue.; “Eikyu Senpan wa Haisensekinin wo Kaihishitanoka?” (Did “Class A War Criminals” Evade the Responsibility for the Defeat?), Shokun, October issue.; “Rekishininshikironsou wo ‘Bunka no Sabaki’ to surunakare-Toukyousaiban Saikou” (The Tokyo War Trial Reconsidered - Do not Make the Issue of Historical Consciousness a Judgment of Culture), Chuokoron, September issue.; “Rekishi wo kangaeru Muzukashisa” (History in Difficult to Comprehend), Shusin 551.
2004: “‘Bunmei no Sabaki’ wa kakumo Hukouhei” (‘Judgment of Civilization’ is not Fair), Shokun, September issue.; “Jikuu wo koete shisha no koe wo kiku: Gakutohei senpan Kimura Hisao to sengo Nippon”(Listening Beyond Time and Space to the Voice of the Dead: The War Criminal Named Kimura Hisao and the Post-war Japan) , Jikan to Kuukan (Time and Space ), Meisei University.; “Sengo Nihon Seishinshi no nakano Showa 23 nen—Tokyo Saiban to Kiku to Katana to” (The Significance of the Year 1948 in the Intellectual History of the Post-war Japan—The Tokyo War Crimes Trial and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword), Bulletin of Meisei University 12.; “Fusein Saiban to ‘Bunmei no Sabaki’” (Sadam Fusein’s Trial and the ‘Trial of Civilization’), Voice, March issue.
2003: “Towani wakaku soshite utukushiku” (Forever Young, Forever Beautiful), Bulletin of Meisei University 11.; “Fujyori ni kosuru kotoba: Seiki no Isho ga katarumono” (Words Resisting the Unreasonable: A Reading of The Testament of the Century), Hyougen: Kotoba to Keishou (Expressions(II): Words and Representations), Meisei University.
2002: “A Legacy of World War Two -The Tokyo War Crimes Trial and its Intellectual Influence upon Postwar Japan- ”, Bulletin of Meisei University 10.; “Gakuteki Ryoushin ni Michibikarete: Eibeihou no Sendatsu, Takayanagi Kenzo” (Led by Academic Conscience: Takayanagi Kenzo, A Predecessor in Anglo-Saxon Law), Koten to Sendatsu (Classics and Predecessors), Meisei University.; “Yamamoto Shichihei no Tokyo Saiban” (Yamamoto Shichihei's View of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial), Voice, March issue.
2001: “Eikyu Senpan wo Ranyo Surunakare” (Do not Abuse the Term ‘Class A War Criminal’), Shokun, September issue.; “Stokkuhorumu no Kyokujitu: Orinpikku toiu Zenei” (Rising Sun in Stockholm: The Olympics as an Avant-garde) , Dentou to Zenei (Tradition and Avant-garde), Meisei University.
2000: “Tokyo War Crimes Trial Reconsidered--Orientalism and Pal’s Dissenting Opinion”, Bulletin of Meisei University 8.; “Rekishikijutu no Ronri to Souzouryoku: Reiringu Hanji no Nippon” (Logic and Imaginations in Writing History: the Justice Röling's Interpretations of Japan), Souzouryoku to Genjitsubyousha (Imagination and Describing Reality), Meisei University.
1999: “Civilizations Seen and Unseen”, Bulletin of Meisei University 7.; “Kunshi ni Sanraku Ari: Imamura Hitoshi Kaikoroku no Miryoku” (A Reading of General Imamura Hitoshi's Autobiography) , Hyougen: Mokuteki to Shudan (Expressions: Ends and Means), Meisei University.
1998: “Another Fin de Siècle -The Boxer Uprising and a Discourse on Civilization in Japan”, Bulletin of Meisei University 6.; “Bunmeihihyouka Togo Shigenori” (Togo Shigenori: A Critic of Modern Civilization), Fuhenbunmei to Minzokubunka (Universal Civilization and Ethnic Cultures), Meisei University.
1997: “A Dutchman’s View of Japan--A Reading of B.V.A.Röling’s The Tokyo Trial and Beyond”, Bulletin of Meisei University 5.
1994: “Amerika no Nihon Bungaku” (Japanese Literature in America), Soubun 357.
1992: “Kiku to Katana kara Amae no Kouzou e” (From The Chrysanthemum and the Sword to The Anatomy of Dependence), Hikaku Bunmei 8.
1990: “Takeyama Michio no Tokyo Saiban” (Takeyama Michio's View of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial), Chuokoron, January issue.
1985: “Mushimeduru Haan” (The Gentleman Who Loves Insects), Hikakubungakukenkyu 47.

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