日清戦争の時点で、漱石には「昭和二十年八月十五日」が見えていた｜西欧文明の侵略と戦った日本人【倉山満×海上知明・教育勅語②】

▼This Issue's Theme It's easy to say, in idealistic terms, "Don't be swallowed up by the West." But how many Japanese people have actually managed to do that concretely? Natsume Soseki, while heading to victory in the First Sino-Japanese War, foresaw August 15, 1945. Mishima Yukio, Aida Yuji, and Eto Jun grappled with this awareness—in short, they belonged to the lineage of orthodox conservatism. At the opposite extreme was the last genro (elder statesman), Saionji Kinmochi. A court noble who was infatuated with Rousseau and only became a loyalist to the emperor after witnessing the Paris Commune firsthand. A plenipotentiary who could only accept Clemenceau's advice in written form. And a pacifist who stood on the premise that "the Great Japanese Empire is strong." It was this Saionji who, as Minister of Education, declared: "Let's rewrite the Imperial Rescript on Education so that we can be understood by the international community." To reject the Imperial Rescript on Education leads to becoming someone like Saionji Kinmochi. The end result of that is the present day. The Imperial Rescript on Education was the Meiji-era version of the Seventeen-Article Constitution. ▼Cast Constitutional historian and Imperial family historian: Mitsuru Kurayama Tomoaki Kaijo (Director, Sun Tzu Management School) 00:00 Continuation of Episode 1—A shocking confession 00:18 Mitsuru Kurayama's graduation thesis was on "the established practice of constitutional government" and Kinmochi Saionji 02:38 Conclusion—If necessary to protect the Imperial family, follow the established practice of constitutional government 03:20 If critics seize power, 13 prime ministers in 13 years 03:52 The Versailles Conference and Clemenceau's advice 05:15 Wilson's America and Hoover's America 05:57 Pacifists who assumed "the Great Japanese Empire is strong" 06:50 The figure of Minister of Education, Kinmochi Saionji 07:17 A court noble infatuated with Rousseau becomes a loyalist to the emperor at the Paris Commune 08:41 The man who smashed all the windows—Boldness and folly 09:56 "Let's rewrite the Imperial Rescript on Education to be understood by the international community." 10:31 The Seventeen-Article Constitution and the Imperial Rescript on Education / The Dangers of Complete Rejection 11:50 The Lineage of Orthodox Conservatism that Struggled with Soseki's Concerns 12:48 There is nothing more difficult than moderation 14:45 Palmerston, the Soldier King, and Prince Shotoku 15:38 Episode 3 Preview - The Folly of Writing "Cherish Your Family" into the Constitution ★This Episode's Topic★ 📚『Popular Edition "Understanding the Imperial Rescript on Education Through Reversal" by Mitsuru Kurayama / Heart Publishing / June 9, 2026 / ¥1,100 https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4802402627 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏛 Upcoming Event July 26, 2026 (Sun) 14:00-17:50 National Salvation Think Tank Special Forum "For the People to Protect the Imperial Family" Venue: Akihabara TKP ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ① Activities of the National Salvation Think Tank The National Salvation Think Tank is a think tank that conducts policy research for Japan to survive as a civilized nation on Earth. Support and donations are accepted through our official website. ▼ Recruiting Members and Supporting Members for the National Salvation Think Tank https://kyuukoku.com/support/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ② Books Related to the National Salvation Think Tank 📚 "Japan and the US Will Prosper with the Trump-Takaichi Alliance" PHP Shinsho https://amzn.asia/d/fMVuu9R 📚 "Constitutional Self-Defense Forces: The New Self-Defense Forces Law" by Kiyoshi Ogawa https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4847076141 📚 "Why Does Mature Democracy Create Division?" Subarusha 2019.12 Yuya Watase https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4799108352 📚 "Lower Taxes, Eliminate Regulations" Kobunsha Shinsho 2020.10 Yuya Watase https://amzn.asia/d/0gxQKkWg 📚 Salvation Think Tank Series "Leave US Alone" https://amzn.asia/d/hqIYXNJ 📚 Salvation Think Tank Series "Important Issues for Salvation of the Nation" https://amzn.asia/d/01rKxpYg ★ "The Quran Speaks" 350 yen / 10 copies [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ③ Official Website & SNS Salvation Think Tank Official Website https://kyuukoku.com / Support and Donations https://kyuukoku.com/support/ Subscribe to our channel here https://www.youtube.com/@kurara_ch?su... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ④Next LIVE July 18th (Thu) 17:30~ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📢YouTube Membership Member ¥2,790 (tax included) / Supporter ¥5,600 (tax included) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #ImperialRescriptonofEducation #KurayamaMitsuru #KaijoChiaki #SaionjiKinmochi #NatsumeSoseki #AidaYuji #NationalSalvationThinkTank #ChannelKurara