文明のターンテーブルThe Turntable of Civilization

日本の時間、世界の時間。
The time of Japan, the time of the world

Useless studies will be eliminated.

2024年10月10日 06時49分56秒 | 全般
The following is from the serialized column "Fighting Epicurus" by Hiroshi Furuta, Professor Emeritus at Tsukuba University and one of the world's leading scholars, which appeared in the monthly magazine WiLL from 292 to 3 columns on September 26.
It is a must-read not only for Japanese citizens but also for people worldwide.

Reading Yoko Kato's Autobiography "Thoughtful and Flexible" (published in the Asahi Shimbun)
The left-wing scholar's lizard tail cut off
In the "Opinion & Forum" section of the Asahi Shimbun dated August 1, there was an article that appeared to be an autobiography by Yoko Kato, a historian and professor at the University of Tokyo.
As it was unusually honest for Ms. Kato's previous writings, I took it as an autobiography. 
Still, it seems that many people saw it as the "complaints and whining" of a scholar.
Looking at it in order, she says she is a proponent of separate family names for husband and wife but uses her husband's surname of "Kato" in addition to her own surname of "Nojima."
'My spouse teaches Japanese history at a cram school.'
I am a professor at the University of Tokyo, but I also respect my husband, who teaches at a cram school. 
I also use the surname Kato, which is what she means.
The interviewer, Satoko Tanaka (editorial committee member Junko Takahashi, who borrowed the name), poked her about this. 
She was criticized for being anarchic, saying, "Last year, the NHK program ‘100 Minutes of Feminism' introduced the writings of anarchist Ito Noe, who was massacred by the military police after the Great Kanto Earthquake." 
The reason for this is that "the social norm that women should be responsible for looking after the home has caused a lot of women to suffer, both in the past and today." 
In this context, she says that Noe, who has been active in social movements, is admirable. 
However, in the program, she was ridiculed by Ueno Chizuko. 
This was really upsetting. 
"Chizuko Ueno, who I have known for a long time and appeared on the show with, was puzzled and asked me 'why I, Yoko Kato, who is meticulous and careful, would choose the crude activist Noe Ito.'
Yoko Nojima says she was highly displeased.
I am always very thorough.
However, there is a reason for this; almost all Japanese sociologists believe that "the family is fiction."
I once asked a group of sociologists at Tsukuba University about this, and when I asked them for the logical basis for it, the kindest of them, Dr. Noriko Tarukawa, brought me a book by a Westerner. 
I found it so ridiculous that I forgot the title and author.
Ultimately, it seems this is a tacit agreement about their "studies."
For the sociologist and feminist Ueno, Noda, who was busy with child-rearing and housework because of this "fake," is a crude activist.
Chizuko Ueno's Feminism is just a fake...
I wrote about this in detail in articles 34 to 36 of the May 2022 issue of this series and also in articles 38 and 47.
If you want to know the truth, please take a look.

Useless studies will be eliminated.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology policy is to downsize and reorganize the humanities departments of Japanese universities.
In line with this policy, "useless academic disciplines" will be weeded.
I have already written about this process in Chapter 3 of "Usable Philosophy" (Discover Twenty-One, 2015), "Usable and Useless Academic Disciplines."
This story is based on my experiences as a practitioner involved in university administration.
Please look at the list of faculty members at the University of Tsukuba's Graduate School of International Public Policy on the Internet.
You will see that half of the former social science faculty members have been classified into different categories.
My job was to classify the faculty members by political or cultural aspects. 
This makes it difficult for the untrained eye to see how many faculty members have been reduced, but those in the know can see which posts have not been filled at a glance (touch the "Details" section). 
Looking at this now, you'll see that the number of political science lecturers has almost halved, and the number of cultural anthropology lecturers is on the verge of extinction.
However, the bad news is that sociology, Japan's most useless social science, has remained relatively high.
The sociology lecturers all work together to protect themselves.
The University of Tokyo responded to this pressure to weed out by breaking up the departments and dispersing the lecturers, but the sociology departments have remained intact.
Perhaps this is because Ueno and other alumni throw the ball to check the "tail-cutting of the left" in different fields.
Or is it to threaten their people?
In addition, the University of Tokyo's Korean history research laboratory is in a state of semi-collapse. 
Still, since the organization is full of believers in the progressive historical view, it is unlikely that the post will be filled again after the faculty members retire.
Incidentally, in the August issue of the magazine 'Hanada,' Mr. Tomokazu Shigemura (Professor Emeritus at Waseda University) wrote, 'Sadly, in Japan, the 'top-class' commentators and journalists do not get involved in the issues of South Korea and North Korea. By 'top-class,' I don't mean famous people. I mean outstanding people in their humanity, insight, and wisdom (page 212). and courageously reports the truth, so I would like to respond to this sincerely.
Masao Okonogi, Professor Emeritus at Keio University, was a disciple of the genius Fujii Kamiya. 
Still, he rebelled and held the war origin theory that the Korean War was caused by the "invasion of the North" by the US and South Korea.
In other words, he was a leftist.
However, in 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed and the so-called "Stalin telegram" was leaked, in which Stalin gave the go-ahead for Kim Il-sung's invasion of the South, he is said to have told his students the following year, "I've given up research. From now on, I'll be on TV".
I heard this directly from Ms. Akika, a former Japan-Korea Cultural Exchange Fund employee who was in the Okonogi seminar at the time. 
After that, his research papers were written by his students.
Mr. Masayuki Suzuki (former professor at Shobi University) wrote seven, Mr. Hideya Kurata (current professor at the National Defense Academy) wrote five, and Mr. Toshiji Hiraiwa (current professor at Nanzan University) wrote three.
The above information was obtained directly from the individuals concerned.
When I asked him if he had taken over writing the books, he replied, "When I actually started writing them, I found myself putting a lot of effort into it."
He was able to do more research than his teacher.
His top disciple, Tetsugi, supported Okonogi's administrative work related to publishing, while Furuta, who was not even his disciple, supported the administrative work related to academic societies.
He was unable to do any practical work.
Even though he used his students to do all this work, he never helped them find jobs, and this led to a backlash, but he was good at using people.
He turned this into favoritism towards Kurata alone, which led to internal strife and scattered them from the academic world.
Furuta created the modern Korean Studies Association, but after Okonogi, no people supported it.
The academic society prize was named the Okonogi Prize.
This article continues.


2024/10/6 in Umeda, Osaka

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