Sublime

But this circle of friends was also a world of its own.

they had little interest in organizations like the NGK or in issues such as law-bureaucrat supremacy or academic cliques.

“I devote my life to technology.... I am going to Manchuria to do some creation” (sōsaku o

intellectuals”—the problem of how to reconcile “Japanese blood and Western intellect.”1

This book is as much a history of the discourse of science as it is a history of nationalism and modernity in interwar and wartime Japan.

When

It was a complicated process. Recollecting his own and other intellectuals’ experiences during wartime, prominent historian Takeuchi Yoshimi wrote that “[s]ubjectively speaking, it would make more sense to most intellectuals to say that, while continuing to reject and hate the mythology, we became incorporated into the mythology in a doubly and tri

North Koreans had been indoctrinated to think that all Japanese were cruel.