タケカワ シュンイチ   TAKEKAWA Shunichi   竹川 俊一    所属   立命館アジア太平洋大学  アジア太平洋学部    職種   教授
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2013/02
形態種別	論文（学術誌・プロフェショナル誌）
査読	査読あり
標題	Fusing Nationalisms in Postwar Japan: The Battleship Yamato and Popular Culture
執筆形態	単著
掲載誌名	electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies
巻・号・頁	12(3)
概要	The battleship Yamato of the Imperial Navy has influenced many artists in Japanese popular culture. In Yamato-featured stories, critics tend to find shadows of right-leaning, conservative nationalism. However, this article stresses that Space Battleship Yamato, a TV anime series aired in 1974 and 1975, and Silent Service, a manga series published from 1988 to 1996, also suggest anti-conservative ideas such as pacifism, anti-militarism, internationalism, and world federalism, discussing the impact of an earlier literary work, Requiem for Battleship Yamato, written by its former officer in the early 1950s. This article, in conclusion, argues that the Yamato in popular culture tends to play the role of a vehicle fusing contradictory nationalist messages since the historical facts of the Yamato, such as being at the time the largest battleship in world history, and the deaths of over 3,000 seamen on its last mission, and the earlier literary work inspire artists in popular culture to do so. Note: http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol12/iss3/takekawa.html