著者

駄場 裕司

出版者

拓殖大学

雑誌

拓殖大学百年史研究 (ISSN:13448781)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.6, pp.30-45, 2001-01-31

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This article focuses on the reactions of the Gen'yosha (Dark Ocean Society) and the Kokuryukai (Amur River Society, sometimes erroneously translated as "Black Dragon Society") during the 1922 unofficial visit to Japan of the representative of the Soviet government, Adolf Joffe, and his negotiations with Goto shinpei, Mayor of Tokyo, President of Takushoku University, and former foreign minister. The author challenges the existing notions that these two "nationalist" organizations were always anti-Communist. He argues that they showed a much more flexible attitude both to the recognition of Soviet Russia by Japan and to forming diplomatic relations between the two countries than most scholars are willing to concede. In fact, the author notes, the pro-Soviet position assumed by some nationalist groups, including the Gen'yosha and the Kokuryukai, contradicts the generally accepted view according to which Japan's nationalist was always necessarily anti-Soviet and anti-Communist at the same time.