保田与重郎的明治维新及其困境

Yojuro Yasuda’s Meiji Restoration and its Dilemmas

日本浪漫派代表人物保田与重郎在战后提出了'绝对和平'的理念,并在此基础上倡导恢复以大米耕作为基础的生产和生活方式的'亚洲立场';然而,在写于同一时期的另一篇《明治维新与亚洲的革命》中,保田却以明治维新为起点,重审日本对英美发动的太平洋战争。本文通过阅读这篇文章,试图考察保田接近于'大东亚战争肯定论'的争议性论述与其'绝对和平'论之间的关联。本文认为,保田并非借助明治维新来为'大东亚战争'进行意识形态辩护,而是通过日本的战败、通过'大东亚战争'所代表的日本帝国主义的破产,揭示明治维新的精神价值及其政治成绩之间的罅隙。

After the Second World War,Japanese romanticist Yojuro Yasuda invented the idea of'absolute peace',and advocated for returning to the'Asian standpoint',which is a mode of life and production revolves around rice cultivation.In his contemporary work Revolution in Asia and the Meiji Restoration,Yasuda reviews Japan’s Pacific War against British and American forces using the Meiji Restoration as a reference point.This paper sets out to investigate the connection between Yasuda’s controversial'approval'of Japan’s Greater East Asia Wars and his idea of'absolute peace'.The author argues that Yasuda did not use the Meiji Restoration as an ideological defense for the war,but rather attempted to demonstrate the gap between the Meiji Restoration’s psychological value and its political accomplishment through charting the course of Japan’s military defeat and bankruptcy of Japanese Imperialism.