대동아전쟁과 다케우치 요시미(竹内好)의 전쟁책임론

Abstract

This paper examines how Takeuchi changed his attitude towards war responsibility and problems in the Great War after his defeat. Takeuchi thought that he could transform the outside world through self-denial and self-innovation instead of external authority. He concluded that this idea coincided with the Great East Asian War, which criticized the Western modernity on December 8, 1941, declaring propaganda against the United States and called for the establishment of the Greater East Asia Coalition through the transformation of the Japanese nation. And he positively accepted this war. After the defeat, Takeuchi discussed the issue of war responsibility, saying that Japan's war was an invasion war as well as an imperialist war. Takeuchi argued that he could not agree to transfer responsibility for the imperialist war to Japan alone. Therefore, Takeuchi's war responsibilities were not limited to war responsibility for everything, but rather limited to which part of war and which side to take responsibility for. It seems that Takeuchi does not deny the meaning of the War of Great East Asia in the same way as before. Based on this perception, he traced the problems of Japanese modernization. In order to achieve this purpose, he changed the method of studying only China and included the problem of Japanese modernization in the postwar period.