国家と犠牲
「靖国」問題をめぐって
2003 年 2003 巻 54 号 p. 111-128,238
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2003 年 2003 巻 54 号 p. 111-128,238
The Yasukuni Shrine has been a privileged device of wars and nationalism inmodern Japan and as such it remains today a focus of both national and international conflicts. The problems of this shrine are, on the one hand, to be considered as those of national worship of fallen soldiers which is common to modern nationstates in general, but on the other hand, they have particular Japanese features which are concerned with State-Shintoism.
In this article, I examin these problems successively from four points of view. That is, (1) the worship of Japanese war criminals, (2) the constitutional principle of the separation of religion and politics, (3) the enshrining of the fallen soldiers who were mobilized from Korea and Taiwan by the Imperial Japan, and (4) the alternative idea of the new secular momument for national mourning of fallen soldiers.
Finally, I would like to question the system of a nation-state which requires the sacrifices of its members, that is, the nation-state as civil religion.
