ABSTRACT This article offers a critical appraisal of the Abe Cabinet’s plans to orchestrate a national celebration of the 150th anniversary of Meiji in 2018, following the example of the Meiji Centennial celebrations of 1968. The article begins by introducing some of the criticisms voiced at the time of the 1968 Centennial by prominent Japanese historians such as Tōyama Shigeki and Yamaguchi Keiji, who saw clear links between the post-war celebration of Meiji and broader efforts to revive Japanese nationalism and promote the long-term goal of re-militarization. It goes on to consider some of the public statements that have been made by Prime Minister Abe regarding ‘Meiji 150ʹ and explores the significant gap between the government’s vision of the significance of Meiji and the perspectives that emerge from scholarship on the Restoration period produced in recent decades by historians in both Japan and the English-speaking world. It concludes with a brief consideration of the divide that separated Japan’s post-war historians from some of their American colleagues in the 1960s, and the role that scholars today have to play in combating the manipulation of the past.

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明治维新与战后纪念政治：1968/2018

它继续考虑了安倍首相就“明治 150”发表的一些公开声明，并探讨了政府对明治意义的看法与最近产生的关于维新时期的学术观点之间的重大差距。几十年来，日本和英语世界的历史学家。最后简要考虑了日本战后历史学家与 1960 年代的一些美国同事之间的分歧，以及今天的学者在打击对过去的操纵方面必须发挥的作用。