第105回アジア太平洋研究センター（WIAPS）研究会 (6/8)

開催日時

2026年6月8日（月）12:25-13:00

場所

ZOOMウェビナー

参加資格

WIAPS専任教員・助教, GSAPS兼担教員, WIAPS受入の交換研究員・訪問学者・外国人研究員, GSAPS修士課程・博士後期課程在学生

報告者

ホフマン レトトーマス（早稲田大学アジア太平洋研究科教授）

報告テーマ

The Conservative Imaginary: The Yabe Circle and the Origins of Japanese Conservatism, 1920-1970.

（使用言語：英語）

要旨

This paper examines the intellectual and political origins of modern Japanese conservatism through the activities of the “Yabe Circle,” a loose network of thinkers, bureaucrats, journalists, and political actors surrounding the political scientist Yabe Teiji from the interwar period to the high Cold War. Spanning the decades from the crisis of parliamentary politics in the 1920s to the consolidation of conservative rule under the Liberal Democratic Party in the 1950s and 1960s, the paper argues that Japanese conservatism emerged not simply as a postwar reaction against socialism or liberalism, but as the reformulation of imperial and wartime political ideas under the conditions of defeat, decolonization, and Cold War realignment—what I call the conservative imaginary.