Japan's Image of the Soviet Union 1952-61
Japan's Image of the Soviet Union 1952-61
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1952-61 年日本对苏联的印象
DOI:
10.2307/2752711
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发表时间:
1962
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影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
J. Morley
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作者:
J. Morley
T HE DEMONSTRATIONS IN TOKYO in 96o against the revised mutual security pact with the United States created the fear in the minds of many Westerners that the Japanese people, after an initial period of tolerance of the American position in Japan, are growing increasingly hostile to the United States and turning more and more toward the Soviet Union.' Is there any foundation for this fear? What do the Japanese people think of the Soviet Union? I am concerned here with the attitude of the Japanese people not toward Communism as such but rather toward the Soviet Union as a state. These two conceptions are inter-related, of course, but one should try to keep them distinct. Moreover, I am not dealing here chiefly with the particular policies which individuals, political party leaders and interest groups have been recommending, but with that residue of feeling, that fundamental attitude, that composite picture of the Soviet Union which is not policy itself, but rather one of the limits within which it is shaped, one of the sources from which it springs. Since such a composite image is clearly the product of experience, it may be helpful to sketch its contours by analyzing briefly the various Japanese experiences with the Soviet Union which appear to have produced it. First of all is the memory of past relations with the Soviet Union during and preceding World War II. By and large they seem to me to have prejudiced the Japanese people to take a hostile view. For the present period their impres, sions have been shaped by experience primarily in seven fields. Four have related to tangible, material interests (fishery, trade, repatriation and territory); the remaining three (the Japan Communist Party, the "peace movement" and the policy of threat) have related to the broad national aspirations of the Japanese people for progress, independence, and peace. With the recovery of national independence from the Occupation in I952, Japanese fishermen and ships have been returning every spring and summer to their old fishing grounds in the northwestern Pacific and the Sea of Okhotsk. The smaller ships have sought the costal waters, the larger ones heading for the salmon and sardines of the deeper seas. They put out from the port cities of northeastern Honshu and Hokkaido to form great fleets