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David M. O'Brien To Dream of Dreams*1からメモ；
因みに、このパッセージが置かれた章のタイトルは「出る釘（The Nail That Sticks Up）」*3。
In Japan, not only has the crucial Western distinction between the public and the provate failed to take root, but the connotations and implicationsof the words for “public” (oyake) and “private” (watakushi) are radically different: they are turned upside down, as it were. Oyake is highly ambiguous, and stands also for that which is official and traditionally associated with the emperor. The Japanese character for Oyakeor ko, moreover, is the last character of the prewar slogan, “Self-annihilation for the sake of the country” (messhi hoko*2 ). In short, te public (oyake) and the private (watakushi) have historically suggested a hierarchical relationship between ruler and subordinate, of superiority and inferiority in psosition and in importance. (pp.30-31)
To Dream of Dreams: Religious Freedom and Constitutional Politics in Postwar Japan
- 作者: David M. O'Brien,Yasuo Ogoshi
- 出版社/メーカー: Univ of Hawaii Pr
- 発売日: 1996/08
- メディア: ペーパーバック
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*1:Mentioned in http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20180125/1516853236
*2:「滅私奉公」
