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Eiji Oguma

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Oguma Eiji

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性別
男性
生誕
1962-09-06 （Akishima, Tokyo, Japan）
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
居住地歴
Akishima, Tokyo, Japan → Fujisawa, Kanagawa (Keio University SFC)

経歴

職業
Sociologist, Professor, Guitarist, Researcher
活動期間
1990年〜
所属
Keio University Faculty of Policy Management (Professor), Iwanami Shoten (former employee)
影響を受けた人物
Masao Maruyama, Takaaki Yoshimoto, Shunsuke Tsurumi, Chizuko Ueno, Kunio Yanagita

学歴

Nagoya University, Faculty of Science (Physics) (left before graduation)
Faculty of Science / Department of Physics
期間: 在学中中退
国: Japan
Enrolled but left; later transferred to the University of Tokyo
Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo
Faculty of Agriculture / Department of Agricultural and Life Sciences
学位: 学士
期間: 卒業
卒業年: 1987
国: Japan
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo (International Social Sciences)
International Social Sciences
学位: 博士（学術）
期間: 修了
卒業年: 1998
国: Japan
PhD awarded for dissertation 'The Boundaries of "the Japanese"' (1998)

受賞歴

Suntory Academic Award
1996
対象作品: A Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-images
部門: 社会・風俗部門
主催: Suntory Foundation
結果: 受賞
Japan Sociological Society Encouragement Award (Book)
2003
対象作品: Democracy and Patriotism: Postwar Japanese Nationalism and Publicness
主催: Japan Sociological Society
結果: 受賞
Mainichi Publishing Culture Award
2003
対象作品: Democracy and Patriotism: Postwar Japanese Nationalism and Publicness
部門: 第2部門
主催: Mainichi Shimbun
結果: 受賞
Osaragi Jiro Forum Award
2004
対象作品: Democracy and Patriotism: Postwar Japanese Nationalism and Publicness
主催: Osaragi Jiro Forum Award Committee
結果: 受賞
Kadokawa Foundation Arts and Culture Award
2010
対象作品: 1968
主催: Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation
結果: 受賞
Bestselling New Book Award (Shinsho Award)
2013
対象作品: How to Change Society
主催: Shinsho Award Committee
結果: 受賞
Kobayashi Hideo Award
2015
対象作品: The Man Who Returned Alive: A Japanese Soldier's War and Postwar
主催: Kobayashi Hideo Award Committee
結果: 受賞
Japan Film Revival Encouragement Award
2016
対象作品: In Front of the Prime Minister's Office
主催: Japan Film Revival Organization
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

A Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-images

1995年 Non-fiction / Historical Sociology 320ページ

Investigates the origins and formation of the notion of a "single Japanese ethnicity," situating it within colonial and pre/postwar political contexts.

NationalismIdentityColonialismHistorical Sociology
翻訳
  • English translation: A Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-images (Trans Pacific Press, 2002)

The Boundaries of 'the Japanese'

1998年 Non-fiction / Historical Sociology 360ページ

Uses cases such as Okinawa, Ainu, Taiwan, and Korea to examine how the boundaries of "Japanese" have shifted within state and colonial relations.

National identityBoundary studiesTreatment of minoritiesModern history
翻訳
  • English translation: The Boundaries of 'the Japanese' (Trans Pacific Press, 2014)

Democracy and Patriotism: Postwar Japanese Nationalism and Publicness

2002年 Non-fiction / Intellectual History 400ページ

Traces the relationship between 'democracy' and 'patriotism' in postwar Japan and argues for the diversity of Japanese nationalism through intellectual history.

Postwar intellectual historyNationalismPublic sphere

1968

2009年 Non-fiction / History 800ページ

A comprehensive reexamination of Japanese student and social movements around 1968, based on extensive source materials.

Student movementsSocial movementsMemory and historicization

The Man Who Returned Alive: A Japanese Soldier's War and Postwar

2015年 Non-fiction / Biography 240ページ

A biographical nonfiction based on interviews with the author's father, portraying an ordinary man's wartime and postwar life to illuminate social-historical issues.

War and memoryFamily historyPostwar history

全著作

  • A Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-images (1995)
  • The Boundaries of 'the Japanese' (1998)
  • India Diary: From a Land of Cows and Computers (2000)
  • Democracy and Patriotism (2002)
  • 1968 (2009)
  • The Man Who Returned Alive (2015)
  • Other works (dialogue collections, edited volumes, essay collections)

作品の翻訳

  • A Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-images (English translation, Trans Pacific Press, 2002)
  • The Boundaries of 'the Japanese' (English translation, Trans Pacific Press, 2014)

作風・主題

文体
Scholarly prose based on exhaustive literature reviewAnalytical, constructivist approach with rigorous argumentation
頻出モチーフ
Construction of nationalismReexamination of postwar historyPublicness and identity

評価・遺産

A leading sociologist who has significantly influenced studies of Japanese nationalism and postwar intellectual history. His rigorous scholarship is widely respected, although some works have provoked debate over interpretation and methods.

関連学会

  • Japan Sociological Society

資料所蔵先

  • Keio University archives (related holdings)

大衆文化への影響

  • Musical activity with Quikion (guitarist; live performances and recordings)

引用

  • Having studied physics for a while, I could understand to some extent what was happening during the nuclear accident. Even listening to reliable experts, this was seriously bad.
    出典: Interview / related writings (2011年)
  • Escape from the 'Galapagos-like' arguments of the conservative camp
    出典: Asahi Shimbun (comment) (2014年)

豆知識

  • Attended Tokyo Metropolitan Tachikawa High School and enrolled at Nagoya University (physics) but left; later graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Agriculture.
  • Performs as guitarist (and bouzouki) in the band Quikion and has released several indie albums.
  • His father, Kenji Oguma, was interned in Siberia after World War II.