507 research outputs found
Anti-Semitism and Anti-Globalism in IMAIZUMI Genkichi’s Mikuni : What We Find in the Mikuni Special Issues of KAGAWA Toyohiko during World War Ⅱ
No full textThe Mikuni , a magazine of Christianity made-in-Japan, had three special issues of KAGAWA Toyohiko in 1942, about one year after the Pearl Harbor attack. KAGAWA was a prominent, worldly well-known Christian before, during and after World War II. The Mikuni gradually drifted from its Christian faith and landed on the strong, militaryoriented patriotism, the ideology which dominated Japan in the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s. The Mikuni writers criticized KAGAWA harshly, using strong words of Anti-Semitism. In this paper, the author argues that the Mikuni writers accused globally minded KAGAWA because they believed that the globalism was a trap carefully placed by the Jews, waging in the Japanese territory and smashing its traditions. To the Mikuni , World War II had to be fought not only to defend sacred Japan against the Jewish globalism but also to start a new one which would be led not by the Jews but by the Japanese. As the war ended, however, this dream of theirs also ended. In order not for the history to repeat, we must revisit and learn from the past, which should be one of the keys to open up peace to our future.departmental bulletin pape
Mikuni as a Christianity Made in Japan : its anti-Semitism and the persecution of Japanese Christians in the early Showa era
No full textAfter 1873, when Christianity became legal in Japan, Christian beliefs began spreading all over the nation. As syncretization being one of the Japanese cultural characteristics, some Japanese tried to grasp Christianity in the Japanese context and established their made-in-Japan Christianity. Imaizumi Genkichi’s Mikuni movement was one of them. Mikuni activists published their monthly Mikuni magazines from 1935 to 1943 with Imaizumi as its chief editor. The Mikuni , born out of an intercultural turmoil between a foreign religion and Japanese traditional ideas, was right-wing in its opinions, actively pro-war, and riddled with anti-Jewish remarks. This anti-Semite attitude was seen not only in the Mikuni but also in non-Christian Japanese during that period. In this paper, the author tries to argue that the anti-Semitism in Japan of the early Showa era, which probably influenced the Mikuni , should be one of the reasons why Japanese Christians were persecuted and controlled by the Japanese government in the 1930s and 40s. Due to the limited number of pages, this introductory paper mainly outlines the Japanese-ness, made-in-Japan Christianity, and the Anti-Semite movement around the world including Japan and the Mikuni , leaving the details of the anti-Semitism in the Mikuni to another paper following this current one.departmental bulletin pape
今泉源吉『みくに』における反ユダヤ主義と反グローバル主義： 第二次世界大戦中の『みくに』「賀川豊彦氏の思想批判特輯號」から読み解く
No full textThe Mikuni , a magazine of Christianity made-in-Japan, had three special issues of KAGAWA Toyohiko in 1942, about one year after the Pearl Harbor attack. KAGAWA was a prominent, worldly well-known Christian before, during and after World War II. The Mikuni gradually drifted from its Christian faith and landed on the strong, militaryoriented patriotism, the ideology which dominated Japan in the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s. The Mikuni writers criticized KAGAWA harshly, using strong words of Anti-Semitism. In this paper, the author argues that the Mikuni writers accused globally minded KAGAWA because they believed that the globalism was a trap carefully placed by the Jews, waging in the Japanese territory and smashing its traditions. To the Mikuni , World War II had to be fought not only to defend sacred Japan against the Jewish globalism but also to start a new one which would be led not by the Jews but by the Japanese. As the war ended, however, this dream of theirs also ended. In order not for the history to repeat, we must revisit and learn from the past, which should be one of the keys to open up peace to our future
Study on Engineering Foreign Language in Shibako Mizuhane by de Rijke and Sakaiko-Shuchiku-kengi by Escher
No full textShibako Mizuhane and "Sakaiko-Shuchiku-Kengi" are Japanese translations, first one was written by Johannes de Rijke, another was George Arnold Escher, who were employed Holland engineers. These books are preserved in the Mikuni Museum, "Ryu-Sho-Kan". These books consist difficult style concerning words. So they have not been opened to the public. The author already translated them to living, languages. In this study, the author especially investigates in the translation of living words from difficult foreign engineering words.departmental bulletin pape
Translation to Living Language from "Shibako Mizuhane" by Johannes de Rijke, a Holland Engineer on Government Employ
No full textShibako Mizuhane is the Japanese translation from the report of fascine spur and fascine mattress by Johannes de Rijke, a Holland engineer on Government employ. The Japanese tranlation is preserved in the Mikuni Museum, "Ryu-Sho-Kan". The contents of the book consist difficult style concerning construction technology of civil engineering. So it has not been opened to the public. In this study, the author translates it to living languages upon a position of civil engineering
Translation to Living Language from "Shibako Mizuhane" by Johannes de Rijke, a Holland Engineer on Government Employ
No full textShibako Mizuhane is the Japanese translation from the report of fascine spur and fascine mattress by Johannes de Rijke, a Holland engineer on Government employ. The Japanese tranlation is preserved in the Mikuni Museum, "Ryu-Sho-Kan". The contents of the book consist difficult style concerning construction technology of civil engineering. So it has not been opened to the public. In this study, the author translates it to living languages upon a position of civil engineering.departmental bulletin pape
Monitoring the caspase cascade in single apoptotic cells using a three-color fluorescent protein substrate
No full textFluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy (FCCS) reveals information about the spatiotemporal coincidence of two spectrally well-defined fluorescent molecules in a small observation area at the level of single-molecule sensitivity. To simultaneously evaluate the activities of caspase-3 and caspase-9, we constructed a chimeral protein that consisted of tandemly fused enhanced cyan fluorescent protein (ECFP), monomeric red fluorescent protein (mCherry) and monomeric yellow fluorescent protein (Venus). In HeLa cell lysates, a combination of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α)- and cycloheximide (CHX-)-induced apoptosis was monitored. In this, decreases of cross-correlation amplitudes were observed between ECFP and mCherry and between mCherry and Venus. Moreover, time-dependent monitoring of single cells revealed decreases in the cross-correlation amplitudes between ECFP and mCherry and between mCherry and Venus before morphologic changes were observed by laser scanning fluorescence microscopy (LSM). Thus, our method could predict the fate of the cell in the early apoptotic stage
Theology of culture in a Japanese context: a believers' church perspective
No full textThis thesis explores an appropriate relationship between Christian faith and culture. We investigate the hallmarks of authentic theology in the West, which offer us criteria to evaluate Christianity in Japan. Because Christian faith has been concretely formed and expressed in history, an analysis and evaluation of culture is incumbent on theology. The testing ground for our research is Japan, one of the most unsuccessful Christian mission fields. Thus this is a theology of culture in a Japanese context. Through a dialogue with H. Richard Niebuhr, John Howard Yoder, and Stanley Hauerwas, we embrace a believers' church perspective as our basic vision. The believers' church critically evaluates culture and seeks to transform it by standing on the boundary between the Kingdom of God and the world, and voluntarily participates in the redemptive suffering of God with the creature. It strives to be faithful to God and to imitate Jesus Christ, instead of seeking to control the world. It trusts in God; for it is He, and not we, who is in charge of history. Examination of Japanese Christian history is conducted in the light of the criteria above, in order to consider how Japan responded to Christianity. The criteria help us see the problem of nationalism both in superficial Christianity in Japan and in Constantinian Christianity in the West. We discuss three major Japanese theologians: Kazoh Kitamori, Yasuo Furuya, and Hideo Ohki. They help us refine our criteria for suffering, for theological assessment of Japan, and for the nature of believers' church as covenant community. We find in our investigation that although Christianity has always been in a minority in Japan, the church in Japan - like the church in the West - inclines to be co-opted by political powers, which is a core problem
The role of Dutch civil engineering in modern port planning in Japan (1870s–1890s)
No full textIn the mid-nineteenth century, civil engineering and technological innovation began to play a major role in the modernization and westernization of Japan. From the 1870s to the 1890s, Dutch civil engineers worked with Japanese practitioners on the design of Japanese ports, a key starting point for urban development. This article explores the role of port and port city planning by Dutch civil engineers on the development of Japanese engineering and planning practice following modern construction methods and technology. It explores the degree to which port and water planning proposals that were associated with foreign forces influenced the development of civil engineering-inspired urban planning practice in Japan. The article examines three case studies of port planning: Nobiru, Mikuni and Yokohama. It shows that comprehensive planning proposals by the Dutch engineers, who combined water management and the construction of port basins and breakwaters with city development, were only partially implemented because they were not aligned with Japanese natural and technical conditions. Instead, Japanese professionals stripped the proposals of the urban context and adopted engineering technology. The fascine mattress technique for breakwaters and imported steam dredging machines became key elements for the construction of basins and the maintenance of modern port function.History, Form & Aesthetic
Homodimerization of glucocorticoid receptor from single cells investigated using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and microwells
No full textGlucocorticoid receptor alpha (GR) binds to the promoter regions of target genes as a homodimer and activates its transcriptional process. Though the homodimerization is thought to be the initial and essential process, the dissociation constant for homodimerization of GR remains controversial. To quantify homodimerization of (enhanced green fluorescence protein) EGFP-(glucocorticoid receptor) GR, the particle brightness in lysates from single cell was estimated for the fraction of homodimeric EGFP-GR using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and microwells. Fitting the data with a bimolecular reaction model, the dissociation constant was determined. Moreover slow-diffusion complex was observed. These results suggest that EGFP-GR forms not only a monomer-dimer equivalent state but also a large-molecular-weight complex
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