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東アジア人文情報学研究センター

INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCHIN HUMANITIES

CHION-JI TEMPLE知恩寺

SHIGAGOEMICHI ST志賀越道

Thursday, September 19th, 18:00hDanny Orbach SPEAKER

Many people in the West associate the Imperial Jap-anese Army with blind obedience to authority. No-torious for following superiors to certain death, Japanese soldiers in the Paci�c War evoked among their enemies unsavory images such as “cattle”, “herd” or “beehive.” And yet, the imperial Japanese army was arguably one of the most disobedient armed forces in modern history. Japanese o�cers repeatedly staged coup d’états, violent insurrec-tions and political assassinations, phenomena which peaked in the 1870s and in the 1930s. Between these two periods, other o�cers inces-santly resisted orders given by both government and high command. In the lecture, we shall examine the many faces of Japanese military disobedience and its dynamics, feeding from basic structural �aws in the modern Japanese polity. Finally, we shall discuss whether military disobedience, in its multiple forms, helped to drive Japan into the Sec-ond-Sino Japanese War and the Paci�c War.

Danny Orbach is an assistant professor in the depart-ments of history and Asian studies at the Hebrew Uni-versity of Jerusalem. He is a military historian, who pub-lished on subjects such as military resistance, war atroc-ities and free-lance military adventurers. His two latest books are The Plots against Hitler and Curse on this Coun-try: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan. The Japanese translation of the latest book is forthcoming in Asahi Shinbun Press. Currently, he works on the history of intelligence in the early Cold War.

The Multiple Facesof Japanese

MilitaryDisobedience,

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Consequences

Scuola Italiana di Studi sull’Asia Orientale ISEAS

École Française d’Extrême-OrientEFEO

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