北京・ソウルにおける「日本文化史」講義おぼえがき

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The present author co-operated in the joint research project of this institute on "A Comparative Study of History Textbooks in Japan, China and Korea". The descriptions of the Sino-Japanese and Korean-Japanese relations in Japanese high school history textbooks have often been taken up as a serious political issue between these countries. Naturally we must correct untrue descriptions by mutual criticisum, but mutual criticism of each nation's history is a very delicate thing to do. The author has had the experience of teaching Japanese history both in China and Korea, and has come to think that in order to understand each other it is more fruitful to learn cultural history than political history and that, for that matter, it is important to explain and write Japanese culturel history in comparison with other countries' culture. But when I began to lecture on Japanese cultural history in China and Korea, I discovered at once that most of the historical studies and descriptions of Japanese culture have been planned and written in comparison with European and Amercian cultural histories. In my opinion it is necessary for us to have a different historical explanation of Japanese culture for each Asian country,such as Japanese cultural history for the Chinese youth or that for the Korean youth, for example.
東京女子大学の論文