著者

奥田 孝晴

出版者

文教大学湘南総合研究所

雑誌

湘南フォーラム : 文教大学湘南総合研究所紀要 = Shonan forum : journal of the Shonan Research Institute Bunkyo University (ISSN:18834752)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.21, pp.19-42, 2017-03-19

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This paper has focused on the issue of existing unequal power structures in the world, as well as those in Japan in similar shape. So-called center-periphery relation being formed by irrational sociopolitical alienation can be typically found between Tokyo and Tohoku, northeast part of Japan that has been established in historical perspective. Tohoku has been discriminated as backward region for a long time as well as it has been designated as mono-cultured production base of rice and raw silk like inner colony from the Japanese successive authorities. Due to its oppressed position, however, Tohoku had splendid thinkers of radical critics in the past.For Example, Shoueki ANDHO criticized exploitation of the feudal establishment in the Edo era in the 17th century from viewpoint of his ideal of equal and ecological society. And Kanji ISHIWARA, a prominent military strategist of the Showa era in the 20th century schemed to make Imperial Japan be freed from its inferior status as “periphery” in the established global imperialist order through winning final war against the Unite States as “center” of it. In this paper, the author has made an academic trial to show the existing center-periphery structure in the Japanese society through critical thinking on historical perspective and tried to find wisdom for solution from viewpoint of our globalization studies as intellectual movement.