This article reveals how Japanese anti-regime rebels in the mid-1870s deployed news of the Ottoman Empire and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 in a burgeoning national public sphere to justify and encourage violent revolution against the Meiji government. It focuses especially on commentary in Hyōron shinbun and its successor publications Chūgai hyōron and Bunmei shinshi, short-lived radical newspapers linked to what became the Kagoshima and Kumamoto rebel factions in the Japanese civil war of 1877. Anti-government agitators drew from French and American theory and history and constructed Turkey as a hidebound violator of freedom and civil rights, casting the Turkish case as a parable for what would befall the Meiji government, supposedly a similar wielder of despotism. They inveighed at the same time against European powers for seizing on “Asian” weakness to expand their empires in Asia. Newspapers thus produced a sense of global simultaneity, intimating to readers that they lived in the same empirical moment as people across the world, but as they constructed this empirical simultaneity, they produced also a sense of theoretical nonsynchronicity, in which the histories of some nations acted as the futures of others. Violent revolution, the journalists suggested, provided the best means of reconciling these dual temporalities of global time.

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论革命日本的全球时间

本文揭示了 1870 年代中期的日本反政府叛乱分子如何在蓬勃发展的国家公共领域中部署奥斯曼帝国和 1877 年俄土战争的消息，以证明和鼓励针对明治政府的暴力革命。它特别侧重于评论孝论新闻及其后续出版物中外hyōron和文明新志, 短命的激进报纸与 1877 年日本内战中的鹿儿岛和熊本叛乱派系有关。反政府煽动者借鉴法国和美国的理论和历史，将土耳其塑造成一个顽固的自由和公民权利的侵犯者，铸造土耳其案是明治政府的一个寓言，据说明治政府是一个类似的专制统治者。他们同时猛烈抨击欧洲列强利用“亚洲”弱点在亚洲扩张帝国。报纸因此产生了一种全球同时性的感觉，向读者暗示他们与世界各地的人们生活在同一个经验时刻，但是当它们构建这种经验同时性时，它们也产生了一种理论上的不同步感，其中一些国家的历史充当了其他国家的未来。记者们认为，暴力革命为调和全球时间的这些双重时间性提供了最好的手段。