国際学術文化振興センターでは、日本人と日本文化の国際的分析の場として英文誌「Review of Japanese Culture and Society」を発行しています。本誌は、日本の文化や社会についての国際認識を高めることを意図して刊行され、相互理解の促進と文化論の方法の見直しをめざしています。

Introduction

Tani Toru i

Part One
The Violence Deeply Rooted in Society

Imamura Hitoshi 1

The Textualization of Violence in a Global World: Gendered Citizenship and Discourses of Protection

Minoo Moallem 9

Walter Benjamin, Remembrance, and the First World War

Martin Jay 18

Part Two
The Logic of Apologizing for War Crimes "as a Japanese"

Bessho Yoshimi 31

Nazi Holocaust and Atomic Holocaust: Transforming Spiritual Crisis into an Ideology of Humanity

Fujinaga Shigeru 43

Issues surrounding the Wartime "Comfort Women"

Hayashi Yoko 54

The Base and the Military: Structural Violence against Women

Takazato Suzuyo 66

Violence and Communication in the History and Context of Minamata Disease

Maruyama Tokuji 79

Fiction:
Dear Friend

Hayashi Kyoko 100