State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis

State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis by Andrew E. Barshay examines the dilemmas of Japanese intellectual life under the pressures of modern state formation and wartime mobilization. Through paired studies of Nanbara Shigeru, a professor of Western political thought at Tokyo Imperial University, and Hasegawa Nyozekan, a journalist and trenchant critic, Barshay illuminates the tension between “insider” and “outsider” positions in the public sphere during the impe...