{"id":17911,"date":"2026-05-28T17:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/?p=17911"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:49:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:49:44","slug":"the-105th-wiaps-seminar-jun-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/news-en\/17911","title":{"rendered":"The 105th WIAPS Seminar (Jun. 8th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Date &amp; Time<\/h3>\n<p>Jun. 8, 2026 (Monday) 12:25-13:00<\/p>\n<h3>Venue<\/h3>\n<p>ZOOM Webinar<\/p>\n<h3>Intended Audience<\/h3>\n<p>WIAPS Full-time Faculty\/Research Associates, WIAPS Exchange Researchers\/Visiting Scholars\/Visiting Researchers, GSAPS MA\/Ph.D. Students<\/p>\n<h3>Presentation<\/h3>\n<h4>Presenter<\/h4>\n<p>HOFMANN, Reto Thomas (Professor, GSAPS)<\/p>\n<h4>Presentation Theme<\/h4>\n<p>The Conservative Imaginary: The Yabe Circle and the Origins of Japanese Conservatism, 1920-1970.<\/p>\n<p>(Conducted in English)<\/p>\n<h4>Abstract<\/h4>\n<p>This paper examines the intellectual and political origins of modern Japanese conservatism through the activities of the \u201cYabe Circle,\u201d a loose network of thinkers, bureaucrats, journalists, and political actors surrounding the political scientist\u00a0Yabe Teiji\u00a0from 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\u2014what I call the conservative imaginary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date &amp; Time Jun. 8, 2026 (Monday) 12:25-13:00 Venue ZOOM Webinar Intended Audience WIAPS Full-time Faculty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[137,129,138],"class_list":["post-17911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-events-en","tag-wiaps-seminar-en","tag-wiaps-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17918,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911\/revisions\/17918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}