The historical significance of the japanese textbook lawsuit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8414599 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ienaga Saburo, Saburo Ienaga (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 2-13 |
| Publication date | 1970-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-4810 • E-ISSN: 1472-6033 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14672715.1970.10419197 |
| OpenAlex | W2327103578 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In 1960, Ienaga Saburō, Professor of Japanese History at Tokyo University of Education and the author of many books on Japanese history, began a long series of court actions to have the Ministry of Education's system of certifying all textbooks used in Japanese schools declared unconstitutional. In the following essay, written exclusively for the Bulletin Professor Ienaga provides an historical background to government control of education in Japan and reviews his long struggle against government censorship of books used in Japan's schools
Censorship · Christian ministry · Government (linguistics · Lawsuit · Political science · Sociology · Classics · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 1971 - 1998 (28) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |