Comparing Nationalism and Citizenship of the U.S.And Japan

20世纪90年代末，围绕美国和日本的国际政治形势呈现出后冷战背景下政治观念的重构和全球化的加速，全球化不仅来自全球中心之外，甚至来自全球中心国内社会内部。鉴于这样的政治背景，日本项目团队的成员和罗格斯大学的成员都认为有必要重新审视民族主义和公民身份的本质，最好是在一个比较的框架内。在这一主题下，我们在美国和日本举办了六个讲习班，从历史、政治、法律和文化的角度分析和辩论美国和日本的民族主义和公民身份。论文发表于《民族主义与公民》第一、二、三、四期（大阪：日本科学院，2000和2001）。日本成员还对每个主题进行了三年的实地研究。为了整合所有这些活动，2001年11月举行了一次国际…更全国性的研讨会，题为“全球化时代的我们人民”，并发表了十四篇论文，并在此基础上进行了深入讨论。内部全球化给美国和日本社会提出了共同的挑战，即如何在非少数民族人口的政治效能非常低的情况下保持政治共同体的完整性和如何重振公民身份。通过对法律制度、民族活动、民间社会组织（NGO/NPOs）等方面的案例研究来寻找答案。全球化和民族主义的复兴可以同时进行的基本理解，不仅通过案例研究，而且通过在美国和日本实时发生的事情，即9-11恐怖主义和围绕教科书重写的运动，得到了重申。同样清楚的是，民族主义是通过使用每个社会所基于的价值观和思想而得到提升的。三年实地研究的记录附在附件中。整个项目的结果将以“我们人民”的名字发表在《全球时代》（大阪；JCAS）上，日语的书籍也即将出版。少

The international political situation surrounding the United States and Japan in the late 1990s was characterized by the reconstruction of political ideas in the post-Cold War setting and the accelerating globalization not only from the global centers outside, but even inside of the global centers' domestic societies. Given such political context, members of Japanese project team and those of Rutgers University shared the need to re-examine the nature of nationalism and citizenship, desirably in a comparative framework. Under this theme, we conducted six workshops both in the United States and Japan, analyzing and debating the cases of American and Japanese nationalism and citizenship, historically, politically, legally and culturally. The papers were published as Nationalism and Citizenship I, II, III, and IV(Osaka : JCAS, 2000 and 2001). The Japanese members also conducted field research for three years pursuing each of their topics. To incorporate all of these activities, an interna … More tional symposium "'We the People' in a Global Age" was held in November 2001, with fourteen papers and intensive discussion based on them. Internal globalization has raised the common challenge for both U.S. and Japanese societies, namely how to maintain the integrity of political community and how to re-vitalize citizenship when the political efficacy is very low even among non-minority population. Case studies on legal system, ethnic groups' activities, civil society organizations including NGO/NPOs are conducted to find the answer. The fundamental understanding that globalization and resurgence of nationalism can proceed simultaneously is re-assured not only through the case studies, but what were happening in real time in the United States and Japan : namely 9-11 terrorism and the movement surrounding textbook rewriting. It also became clear that nationalism is uplifted by using the very values and ideas upon which each of the societiesisbased. The record of three-year field research is made into an attached publication. Findings from the over-all project will be published as "We the People " in Global Age (Osaka ; JCAS), and a book-form publication in Japanese is also forthcoming. Less