일본의 아시아주의와 아시아 學知

Abstract

In Japan, Asianism contains paradox and contradiction. It may be said that Asianism of Japan is ‘extended nationalism’. It was an ideology to deny Japanese nationalism, but it was also a means to seek self-expansion. The organization of Japanese learning and knowledge, the basis of Asianism, had a close relation to Japanese spacial expansion. Japanese learning and knowledge about Asia had a close relation to the military’s intelligence activities. Its accumulated history through government organs of colonies is also evidence of the fact. Oriental history which, in the academic system, took a triangular position with Occidental history and Japanese history replaced existing Chinese historical science. At the same time it built up the conception of the Orient or East Asia. Here the conception of the Orient or East Asia is not fixed, but it has been transformed through the Russia-Japan war, the annexation of Korea, the Manchu incident, the Pacific war, and so on. The conception of a region, meeting the needs of the times, has expanded or contracted like this. However we should remember that there were social and political inevitability. The concept of a region has a meaning only when it is connected with some special purpose. It can be called ‘a criterion’. A paradigm of thought will not be changed unless we make space in which the new value can be produced. We should present a new view point and conception which can cover Asia as unified space(beyond the collection of a country’s history) under the new paradigm. It is the question.