Takahashi Tetsuya

Biographic Data

ID284502
NAMETakahashi Tetsuya
GIVEN NAMESTakahashi
FAMILY NAMETetsuya
SIGNATURETETSUYA T
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Tokyo
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX1

  • What March 11 Means to Me

    Open AccessTakahashi Tetsuya, Tetsuya Takahashi et al.ARTICLEJapan focus2014Cited by: 1

    Takahashi Tetsuya, a philosophy professor at the University of Tokyo and a native of Fukushima Prefecture, has traversed the devastated region numerous times since the March 11 disaster, engaging in various kinds of activism. An introduction by the translators is followed by an English translation of Takahashi's speech at the University of Chicago on March 10, 2012, and a postscript written by Takahashi in May 2014. Takahashi explains "nuclear-po…

  • The National Politics of the Yasukuni Shrine

    Open AccessTakahashi Tetsuya, Philip SeatonARTICLEJapan focus2013

    Takahashi Tetsuya's "The National Politics of the Yasukuni Shrine, " is among the most important statements to emerge from the debate over Yasukuni Shrine, historical memory and war nationalism.Japan Focus is pleased to present chapter seven of Naoko Shimazu, ed., Nationalisms in Japan. Philip Seaton is the translator.We thank Takahashi, Shimazu, Seaton and Routledge for their cooperation in publishing this article.Find a podcast of Takahashi Tet…

  • Philosophy as Activism in Neo-Liberal, Neo-Nationalist Japan

    Open AccessTakahashi Tetsuya, H D Lee et al.ARTICLEJapan focus2007

  • Yasukuni Shrine at the Heart of Japan's National Debate

    Open AccessTakahashi TetsuyaARTICLEJapan focus2007

    Tomita Tomohiko, former grand steward of the Japanese imperial household, recorded in his diaries (1) that Emperor Hirohito ceased visiting the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo when it decided to honour certain men sentenced to death by the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal (2). Seven of the 14 class A criminals condemned, including the prime minister, former general Tojo Hideki, were executed; the others died in prison

  • Koreans Under Assault From the Japanese Right

    Open AccessTakahashi TetsuyaARTICLEJapan focus2007

    This year's March First Day speech by South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun was reported on in Japan, as well. In Japan, the day was marked by a serious set of events surrounding a rally by Chongryun, or Chosen Soren, the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan. The group's commemoration of Korea's March First, 1919 Independence Movement against Japanese colonization was to have been held in an outdoor theater in Hibiya Park …

  • The National Politics of the Yasukuni Shrine

    Open AccessTakahashi Tetsuya, Tetsuya TakahashiARTICLEJapan focus2006

    Takahashi Tetsuya's "The National Politics of the Yasukuni Shrine," is among the most important statements to emerge from the debate over Yasukuni Shrine, historical memory and war nationalism. The article is here.Japan Focus is pleased to present chapter seven of Naoko Shimazu, ed., Nationalisms in Japan. Philip Seaton is the translator

  • The Emperor Showa standing at ground zero

    Open AccessTakahashi TetsuyaARTICLEJapan focus2004

    A Japanese history textbook for junior high school students, created by the members of the 'Atarashii rekishi kyokasho o tsukuru kai' (hereafter referred to as 'Tsukurukai'; Society for History Textbook Reform)1 and approved by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in spring 2001 (we shall use the edition published for the general public), depicted the Showa Emperor over two pages at the end of its 'Personality Column…

  • The Emperor Shōwa standing at ground zero

    Takahashi TetsuyaARTICLEJapan Forum2003

    (2003). The Emperor Shōwa standing at ground zero: on the (re-)configuration of a national 'memory' of the Japanese people. Japan Forum: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 3-14

  • The Shōwa Emperor and war in modern Japanese history

    Takahashi TetsuyaARTICLEJapan Forum2003