- To Send Students to War: Gen Tanabe’s “The Devil’s Kyoto University Lecture” reads
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- The title of the book is radical, but of course the purpose of the book is not “to know what to do to be sent to war” but “to learn Dangerous Ideas in advance so as to acquire immunity, like inoculation with vaccines”.
- A book like a transcript of a class where Yu Sato goes to explain Tanabe Moto’s “Historical Reality” while having the participants of the event read it.
- Examples of critical reading of philosophy books
- Gen Tanabe’s bestseller, “historical reality.”
- Each life is finite, but if we die for the eternal cause, we can live forever.”
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- The kind often found in [[religious war]] and other places. - Very smart to get the idea of introducing a new "[[one's o]]" - [[Dying is a good thought.]]
- It’s interesting to see the flow of irrational decisions that, in retrospect from this point forward, were justified by smart people.
- What was the benefit of Tanabe Moto?
- At that time, embassies of various countries were evacuated to Hakone and Karuizawa. The location of the embassies was communicated to the U.S. through the neutral country of Switzerland.
- International wartime law prohibits air strikes on places where embassies are located.
- Knowing this fact, households with money to spare moved in, and Hakone and Karuizawa became luxury resorts.
- Gen Tanabe retired from Kyoto Imperial University on March 31, 1945, and immediately moved to Karuizawa, where he did not come down until after the war.
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