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Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law

Rethinking the Natural Law Outside the West

By: Kevin M. Doak

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Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law

Rethinking the Natural Law Outside the West

By: Kevin M. Doak

This book explores one of the 20th century’s most consequential global political thinkers and yet one of the most overlooked. Tanaka Kōtarō (1890-1974) was modern Japan’s pre-eminent legal scholar and jurist. Yet because most of his writing was in Japanese, he has been largely overlooked outside of Japan. His influence in Japan was extraordinary: the only Japanese to serve in all three branches of government, and the longest serving Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. His influence outside Japan also was extensive, from his informal diplomacy in Latin America in the prewar period to serving on the International Court of Justice in the 1960s. His stinging dissent on that court in the 1966 South-West Africa Case is often cited even today by international jurists working on human rights issues. Above and beyond these particular lines of influence, Tanaka outlined a unique critique of international law as inherently imperialistic and offered as its replacement a theory of World Law (aka “Global Law”) based on the Natural Law. What makes Tanaka’s position especially notable is that he defended the Natural Law not as a European but from his vantage point as a Japanese jurist, and he did so not from public law, but from his own expertise in private law. This work introduces Tanaka to a broader, English-reading public and hopes thereby to correct certain biases about the potential scope of ideas concerning human rights, universality of reason, law and ethics.

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3030020355

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A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan

Placing the People

By: Kevin Doak

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A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan

Placing the People

By: Kevin Doak

This magisterial history of Japanese nationalism reveals nationalism to be a contested and pluralistic practice that seeks to center the people in political life. It presents a wealth of primary source material on how Japanese themselves have understood their national identity.

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9004155988

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Dreams of Difference

The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity

By: Kevin Michael Doak

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Dreams of Difference

The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity

By: Kevin Michael Doak

From 1935 to 1945, the Japan Romantic School (Nihon Romanha), a group of major intellectuals and literary figures, explored issues concerning politics, literature, and nationalism in ways that still influence cultural discourse in Japan today. Kevin Doak's timely study is a broad critique of modernity in early twentieth-century Japan. He uses close readings and translations of texts and poems to suggest that the school's interest in romanticism stemmed from its attempt to surmount the "cultural crisis" of lost traditions. This attempt to overcome modernity eventually reduced the movement's earlier critical impulses to expressions of nationalist longing.

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Univ of California Press

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0520914244

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9780520914247

A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan

Placing the People

By: Kevin Doak

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Placing the People

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Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law

Rethinking the Natural Law Outside the West

By: Kevin M. Doak

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Rethinking the Natural Law Outside the West

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Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law

Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law

A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan

A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan

Dreams of Difference

Dreams of Difference

A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan

A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan

Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law

Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law

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