Teikoku Ka Suru Nippon Meiji No Kyoiku Scandal (Chiku Ma Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] After winning the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars, Japan promoted patriotic education in national education in order to move toward empire and to dispel concerns about the growing extravagance and individualism of its youth. This eventually progressed to the level of delusion and led to three symbolic incidents: the Philosopher's Hall scandal, the North-South Dynasty orthodoxy leap controversy, and the evolutionary theory issue. From these scandals, we will decipher the mechanism by which the practical learning priority and rationalist education of the early Meiji period was transformed into liberal arts and spiritualism, leading to the sanctification of the nation and the emperor and the strengthening of imperial mythology. This book is a must-read at a time when there are fears of a rightward shift in education.

日清・日露戦争に勝利した日本は帝国化に向かうべく、また青年層の贅沢化と個人主義化への懸念を払拭するために、国民教育における愛国教育を推進した。それはやがて妄想レベルにまで進み、三つの象徴的事件―哲学館事件、南北朝正閏論争、進化論問題を引き起こす。これらのスキャンダルから、明治初頭の実学優先・合理主義の教育が教養・精神主義に転換し、国家と天皇の神聖化、帝国神話強化に向かうメカニズムを解読する。教育の右傾化が危惧される今こそ必読の一冊。