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Liberalism Undone: Discourses on Political Violence in Interwar Japan*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2010

EIKO MARUKO SINIAWER
EIKO MARUKO SINIAWER*
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Williams College, Department of History, North Academic Building 330, Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267, USA Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

During the 1920s, liberal intellectuals in Japan took up their pens to express concerns about the proliferation of violence in political life. Political violence, they feared, was eroding Japanese civilization and culture, degrading constitutional government, and fomenting disorder and instability. Such anxieties encouraged ‘statism’ in their thinking, as a number of liberals called upon the state to provide order and security, without considering who was to police the state. This paper argues that Liberalism was undermined by this trust and authority endowed to the state and was undone, not just by state oppression, but by liberals themselves at the level of democratic practice.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 45 , Issue 4 , July 2011 , pp. 973 - 1002
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21 A sum of all branch members yields a more modest total membership of 41,000 people. It could be that the figure of 200,000 members includes those who did not belong to a regional branch. Naimushō keihokyoku hoanka, Shakai undō dantai gensei chō, June 1932, p. 31. By 1934, the number of branches had decreased slightly from 92 to 87, with the size of the largest local organizations shrinking as well. Total membership also declined to around 36,500. Naimushō keihokyoku hoanka, Shakai undō dantai gensei chō, June 1934, p. 39.

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25 One of the proposed names for the organization in its early stages was the ‘Construction Industry Council’ (‘Dobokugyō Gikai’); ‘Dai Nihon Kokusuikai’ was adopted by the end of October 1919, though it is unclear who made this suggestion. Osaka mainichi shinbun, 9 October 1919, and Tokyo asahi shinbun, 15 November 1919, in Taishō nyūsu jiten, Vol. 4, ed. Edamatsu Shigeyuki et al. (Tokyo: Mainichi komyunikēshonzu, 1987), pp. 378–380.

26 Takabatake Motoyuki (first a socialist adherent of Kōtoku Shūsui's anarchism, here a Marxist, and later a national socialist) also described the kyōkaku refrain of ‘helping the weak and crushing the strong’ as an ‘empty slogan’. Motoyuki, Takabatake, ‘Handō dantai o sendō su’, Kaizō 15, 5 (May 1928): 65Google Scholar. Part of the series, ‘Kokusui dantai no hihan’. For more on Takabatake, see Hoston, Germaine A., ‘Marxism and National Socialism in Taishō Japan: The Thought of Takabatake Motoyuki’, Journal of Asian Studies 44, 1 (November 1984): 43–64Google Scholar.

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33 Mizuno did concede that violence could be condoned in situations where there was no other outlet for expression. Mizuno, ‘Isshi dōjin tare’, p. 95.

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35 Kikuchi, ‘Bōryoku ni tayorazushite oote no koto o shorishitashi’, p. 96. Some might suspect that government censorship coerced writers to be more critical of the left than they might have beem inclined, particularly in journals such as Kaizō and Chūō kōron. There may have been some degree of self-censorship, but in these articles from the 1920s, there were few if any fuseji (marks such as ‘x’-es or circles that stood in for inflammatory words). This suggests that the government was not yet censoring these pieces very strictly, and that writers likely did not feel compelled to use fuseji themselves as a way to avoid wholesale rejection of an article. Perhaps more importantly, these liberals did freely criticize bōryokudan and the government, and the tone of their disparagement of all violence was likely more vociferous than it needed to be to satisfy censors. On prewar censorship, see Mitchell, Richard H., Censorship in Imperial Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983)Google Scholar.

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51 Inoue, ‘Gunshū shinri ni tsūgyō seyo’, p. 99.

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57 Inoue, ‘Gunshū shinri ni tsūgyō seyo’, pp. 100, 104.

58 Mizuno, ‘Bōryoku mokunin to kokka hinin’, pp. 207–208.

59 Takayanagi, ‘Shisō ni tai shite wa kandai nare bōryoku ni tai shite wa genkaku nare’, pp. 91–92.

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61 Yoshino, ‘“Kokka” no hoka “chikara” no shiyō o yurusazu’, pp. 201–202, 204.

62 Abe, ‘Hōchikoku ni bōryoku o yurusu to wa nanigoto ka’, pp. 219–220.

63 Abe, ‘Kokkateki “chikara” no hatsugen o kōhei nara shimeyo’, pp. 74, 76–77.

64 Abe, ‘Bōryoku ni tai suru kokumin no futetteiteki taido’, pp. 89–90, 95.

65 Abe, ‘Kokkateki “chikara” no hatsugen o kōhei nara shimeyo’, p. 75.

66 Inoue, ‘Gunshū shinri ni tsūgyō seyo’, p. 104.

67 Mizuno, ‘Isshi dōjin tare’, p. 95.

68 Mizuno, ‘Bōryoku mokunin to kokka hinin’, p. 207.

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