Joomla! site syndication http://celebratingprotest.org Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:52:06 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://celebratingprotest.org/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://celebratingprotest.org Joomla! site syndication http://celebratingprotest.org/content/view/12/ The following is a transcription of a presentation by Horio Teruhisa at the East Asia: Trans-regional Histories workshop of the University of Chicago. The following description was circulated in advance of the talk. Within eight months of this talk, the Fundamental Law of Education was indeed revised. Horio Teruhisa, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, is a leading theorist of education as the human right upon which all others ultimately depend. The author of numerous books, he is also a tireless activist within the movement to contest the Japanese state's domination of the nation's public schools. He will be speaking about the school as the site of systematic censorship and the increasingly draconian imposition of the flag and anthem, part of the current assault on the Fundamental Law of Education, the Basic Law for a Gender-Equal Society, and Article 9 (the no-war clause) of the Constitution. Professor Horio is engaged in scholarly and legal struggles to defend these pillars of democratic society in postwar Japan. Professor Horio's work was introduced in English in the volume Educational Thought and Ideology in Modern Japan (1988). Professor Horio spoke in Japanese; Norma Field, E. Asian Languages Civilizations, translated; Steven Platzer, editor and translator of Educational Thought and Ideology in Modern Japan and a scholar of Koyama Iwao and Kosaka Masaaki, philosophers of culture as the key component of total war with profound impact on postwar educational policy, provided an impromptu introduction. The tape was transcribed by Makiko Arima and edited by Tiffany Kwak. Guest Speakers - Horio Teruhisa Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:44:19 +0100 http://celebratingprotest.org/content/view/14/ Kamanaka: He made a story about a firebird. A firebird is a symbol of energy in the universe. Tomomi: It’s called Phoenix in English. Kamanaka: There’s one scene I remember the firebird was leaving earth and watching earth from the universe, and then a nuclear war started on the earth. And you see such beautiful fragments of our earth. At this moment, the firebird thinks that human beings are stupid creatures for finally starting a nuclear war and then the firebird flies away. The image of ending the world was like that for me, ending up in smoke. And the image of the end of the world was caused by nuclear war. But when I went to Iraq, I met children who were dying of cancer and leukemia. I thought my image was wrong when I met Rasha. When I met Rasha in Iraq, I reversed how I saw the end of the world for all of ourselves. For example, you see the sky is blue and you feel warm. You drink hot coffee and you can taste it. So, if you live you can feel the world and the world exists for you. But when I sensed that Rasha was dying, the sense of Rasha was going away. For Rasha, the world was going away, too. Then I found out that each person and each individual person’s death was the end of the world. In Iraq, so many children were dying, and it’s going on still—an invisible and unknown death. For each of them, it’s the end of the world. Guest Speakers - Hitomi Kamanaka Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:11:56 +0100