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The Kōji Takazawa Collection of Japanese Social Movement Materials The Kōji Takazawa Collection of Japanese Social Movement Materials 高沢文庫 日本の社会運動資料 VoluMe 1 上巻 university of Hawai‘i ハワイ大学 Honolulu © 2014 Patricia G. Steinhoff Honolulu, Hawai‘i All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from the copyright holder to reproduce any part of this book. CoNTeNTS 上巻 VoluMe I Introduction Patricia G. Steinhoff .......................................................v A. 書籍 Books .............................................................................................1 I. 文献目録と事典 Bibliographies and Dictionaries .................................. 3 II. 全集と縮刷版 Sets and Reprint editions ...............................................15 III. 戦前戦後日本の歴史と思想 Prewar and early Postwar History and Thought ...............................................................................................41 IV. １９６０安保前後 1960 Ampo and its Aftermath .................................75 V. １９６０後半１９７０前半の社会運動 ..........................................................93 Late 1960s-early 1970s Movements VI. 赤軍派関連運動 Sekigunha and Related Movements .......................147 VII. １９７０－１９８０年代社会運動や思想 .....................................................166 1970s-1980s Movements and Thought VIII. 差別：部落問題や沖縄問題 ............................................................................197 Discrimination Issues: Burakumin and okinawa IX. １９６０－１９７０年代の感想 ...................................................................208 Reflections on the 1960s and 1970s X. 思想や世界問題 Social Thought and World Affairs ..........................227 XI. 韓国、朝鮮、在日韓国人 ..................................................................................285 Koreans in Japan, South and North Korea XII. 中国と東亜 China and Asia ....................................................................303 XIII. 女性問題 Women’s Issues ......................................................................311 XIV. よど号グループと北朝鮮 Yodogō Group and North Korea .................320 XV. １９９０年代における日本の問題 1990s Issues in Japan .....................376 XVI. 歴史の研究資料 Historical Research ....................................................384 B. 定期刊行物 Serials .............................................................................395 下巻 VoluMe II A. 他の資料 other Materials ....................................................................1 I. 物 品 Artifacts ........................................................................................... 3 II. AV資料 AV Sets ............................................................................................ 7 III. 切り抜き集 Clippings .................................................................................19 IV. 裁判資料 Court Documents .....................................................................87 V. ファイル Folders ......................................................................................... 99 VI. ビラ集 Handbills .....................................................................................155 VII. 書簡集 Letters ..........................................................................................181 VIII. 原稿 Manuscripts ...................................................................................191 IX. 地図 Maps .................................................................................................227 X. パ ン フレット Pamphlets ...........................................................................233 XI. 写真集 Photographs ...............................................................................399 XII. ポスター Posters ......................................................................................403 iv ❖ Contents B. 他の寄付者の文書 Materials from other Donors .........................409 I. 相原・古屋（あいはら・ふるや）文書 Aihara-Furuya Sub-Collection .....411 II. 武石和実（たけいしかずみ）文書 Takeishi Kazumi Sub-Collection .....483 III. 平井吉夫（ひらいよしお）文書 Hirai Yoshio Sub-Collection .................509 IV. 西平守次（にしひらしゅうじ）文書 Nishihira Shūji Sub-Collection .......519 V. 五味雅彦（ごみまさひこ）文書 Gomi Masahiko Sub-Collection ............523 INTRoDuCTIoN The Takazawa Collection is an extensive collection of resource materials on postwar Japanese social movements that was donated to the University of Hawaii by Takazawa Kōji in 1993. He donated additional materials between 2000 and 2012. The collection contains 2,236 books and 9,386 issues of 1,228 serial titles, the majority of which are not available in any other library. It also contains 1,020 pamphlets, 358 manuscripts, 59 sets of clipping files, 128 court documents in 8 sets, 1,540 handbills in 44 sets, 389 folders of materials, 5,320 letters in 49 sets, 103 audiovisual materials in 32 sets, 45 maps, 35 posters, 1,353 photographs in 22 sets, and 15 sets of artifacts. The collection’s greatest strength lies in its primary materials from the many New Left social movements of the 1960s through 1980s. These materials comprise a running record of most of the major political and social conflicts in postwar Japan, both domestic and international. They include: conflicts over the American military presence in Japan; Japanese response to the Vietnam war; student movements; citizens’ movements and environmental movements; women’s movements; minority rights movements involving indigenous groups and groups traditionally discriminated against; movements concerning Korean and Chi- nese resident in Japan and foreign workers; peace movements; labor movements; anti-emperor movements; movements against airport construction and land ap- propriations; prison reform and anti-death penalty movements; the reversion of Okinawa and other Okinawan movements; movements related to Japanese policy in North and South Korea; and Japanese involvement in liberation movements in the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. The secondary materials include a collection of books that were widely read by Japanese students during the 1960s and influenced New Left thought, a broad range of books published by and about postwar Japanese social movements, a comprehensive collection of literary and dramatic works inspired by or reflecting upon these social movements, and extensive collections of the news coverage and social commentary published about these movements in the Japanese press and large circulation periodicals. The collection constitutes a resource for research in modern Japanese literature and cultural studies as well as history, political sci- ence, and sociology. The materials in the collection were catalogued by Japanese speaking gradu- ate students at the University of Hawaii under my direction with supervision from the professional library staff at the University. Fragile materials were also preserved under the direction of the Preservation and Archival staff at the Uni- versity. The materials were catalogued into a relational database that I designed, which is organized by the different types of materials to reflect the types of in- formation required by American library standards for each type. Since the col- lection contains many types of materials that are not ordinarily catalogued by libraries, the standards for archival collections were used as needed. After the initial cataloguing was completed, materials in folders were further examined and individual items were cross-catalogued as handbills, pamphlets, and serials as appropriate. With few exceptions, the materials in the Takazawa Collection v vi ❖ Introduction are written in Japanese. English annotations have been developed for all of the materials, in order to make the collection materials more accessible to users who are not native speakers of Japanese. Takazawa Kōji and I worked together on the book annotations, after which the student staff and I wrote the rest of the annotations. They sometimes are very basic, and in other cases contain valuable background information on individuals, organizations, and events. Bibliographies of all the materials in the collection are available on the search- able collection website, at http://www.takazawa.hawaii.edu/, which was built on the collection’s relational database by a series of programmers, who are acknowl- edged individually along with the student cataloguers on the collection website. Text explanations and annotations to the materials are currently only available in English, but the bibliographies, browse and search tools, and other research aids include both Japanese characters and romanization. The website has had over 5,000 viewers from Japan, the United States, and Europe. This set of printed volumes is derived from the bibliographies that are posted on the website. Digital editor Wanda China has provided the technical expertise for the publication. To prepare the print version we rechecked the bibliographies and corrected many minor errors. On the website each entry is searchable directly, so explana- tory text in the annotations is repeated in all relevant entries. For the print bibli- ography we have eliminated this duplication and have provided additional organi- zation of the materials. The books were originally sorted by Takazawa Kōji on two trips to Honolulu and they were catalogued in that order. In 2012 he returned and sorted the new books that he had recently donated, and they were catalogued in that order. In preparing for the print bibliography we identified a number of items that were out of order and have tried to put them in their most logical location. To save space, we have also combined book sets and provided a single annotation for the set. Similarly, the print bibliography contains only the serial titles, and the an- notation contains an indication of the number
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