Special Feature: An Arena for Intellectual Opinion and Debate:Commemorating One-Hundred Issues Preface |
by Masayuki Tadokoro |
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I. Thirty-Eight Years of Asteion The Asteion Philosophy |
by Kiyokazu Washida |
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A Spirit of Urbanity, Past and Future | by Tadashi Karube |
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In Search of a Free and Intellectual Journalism | by Kaori Kawai |
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A Bird’s Eye View of Civilization, A Dog’s Eye View of the City | by Seiichi Hayashi |
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For True Academic Knowledge and Knowledge of the World | by Junko Saeki |
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For a Deeper, “Day Stars” Culture | by Mari Akazawa |
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At the Time of My Serial “Shiki no shokutaku” (Shiki Masaoka’s Table) | by Kai Hasegawa |
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Can the Liberal Arts Bring Us Together in an Age of Division? | by Eiko Imahashi |
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The Platform Provided by a Commentary Magazine | by Ryota Yoneda |
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Media Like Having a Conversation Over Beer | by Naota Sanbe |
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The Art of Intellectual Play | by Akihiro Yamamoto |
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A Magazine Like an Evening Garden—Poised Between Daytime Orthodoxy and Nighttime Lawlessness | by Ryota Fukushima |
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II. The Challenge of Intellectual Journalism The Future of Intellectual Debate in Print Media |
by Takenori Inoki |
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Three Essentials for Intellectual Journalism | by Yuji Genda |
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Intellectual Journalism and Contemporary Art | by Hiroko Ikegami |
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Naming and Noise | by Yoko Nii |
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Further Thoughts on Academic Journalism | by Kazufumi Watanabe |
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Supplementing Technology With On-Site Knowledge | by Sayaka Ogawa |
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A Million Stones Falling From the Sky | by Anna Toi |
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Will the Day Come When It Is Cool to be Seen Carrying Around Asteion? | by Yuko Obi |
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The Perspective of an Economist Born in 1987 | by Junichi Yamasaki |
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America or Otherwise | by Seiko Katsura |
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III. What Was Debated in the Pages of Asteion Crumbling Civilization and the Role of the Intellectual |
by Keishi Saeki |
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To Speak of Nations and Civilization | by Ikuo Gonoï |
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A Forum of Public Debate for the Sake of Democracy | by Shigeki Uno |
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Political Science and the Period of Political Reform in Japan | by Ikuo Kume |
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Grand Narratives and Small Apocalypses—From the Cold War to “Make Japan Great Again” | by Wataru Yamaguchi |
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Reconsidering the Article “Exporting Civilization” | by Hiroyuki Itami |
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Thinking About Present-Day China After Reading Articles From the Heyday of “Made in Japan” and Theories About America | by Kazuhiro Iwama |
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Society and I Thirty-Eight Years Ago, or, A Chronicle of Hindsight | by Natsuki Ikezawa |
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Breaking Down Walls Through Journalism | by Terunobu Fujimori |
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The Face of City, Region, and Nation in a Mature Society | by Hidenobu Jinnai |
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Everything Started With My Serial “Taisho Gen’ei” (Taisho-period Dreaming) | by Saburo Kawamoto |
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The Advancing “Deodorantization” of Tokyo | by Mayumi Mori |
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Theatrical Fears of Extinction | by Yoshio Ozasa |
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On Reading Yawarakai kojinshugi no tanjo (Birth of Soft Individualism) After Working at a Distribution Warehouse | by Keita Watano |
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IV. In a Changing World American Century, My Father’s Style |
by Satoshi Udo |
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Responding to the Changing Problems of the Times | by Masashi Miura |
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Engagement as a Member of Humanity | by Yuri Nagura |
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Gaiatsu and the Future | by Yoriko Meguro |
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For a New Consciousness Raising—MRSDH+ (Migrant, Refugee, Stateless People, Dual/Multiple Citizenship, Half/Double/Mix) | by Chen Tienshi |
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America, Ideal and Reality | by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney |
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One Globalization Story | by Fukiko Aoki |
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Living in the Tides of History | by Keiko Yoshioka |
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Who Will Fill the Void of the Middle in Society? | by Ryuichi Kanari |
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The Political Decline of the World’s Leading Nation | by Margarita Estévez-Abe |
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Professor Daniel Bell and the American University | by Takako Hikotani |
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The Eternal Issue of Thinking About America | by Seiko Mimaki |
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Insight to Read the Times | by Yuichi Hosoya |
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Special Feature Roundtable Looking Back Over the Time Since 1986—The Period of Suntory Hall and Asteion |
A discussion with Morihide Katayama, Masashi Miura, and Masayuki Tadokoro |
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Photographic Report Continuing to Make a Print Magazine in the Digital Age :An interview with early Asteion designer Hideya Arata |
by Kaoru Kobayashi |
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Serials Revisiting the History of Jiangnan (Southern China) Final Part. The Do-or-Die Interior |
by Takashi Okamoto |
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The Beginnings of Entomology Final Part. The People Who Supported Japanese Entomology |
by Daisaburo Okumoto |
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Asteion was launched in 1986, a time when intellectual endeavor was still being held back by competing ideologies. Things have moved on since then. By adopting a more flexible approach and tuning our senses to a broad range of global issues, rather than churning out articles focusing solely on current affairs, we have developed a keen understanding of contemporary trends. The name Asteion comes from the Ancient Greek "ASTEION," meaning sophisticated and refined. This reflects our desire to stimulate intelligent discourse among those who are independent and yet share the same public space as fellow citizens through active but sensible exchanges of diverse opinions. A quarter of a century on, the competing ideologies that marked the twentieth century have now converged, leaving us free to express our opinions on an endless range of subjects. Our mission to promote genuine debate is all the more important for shedding light on the mega-waves of our time. We hope that more and more people, each interested in public issues in their own way, will come to share the spirit of Asteion and support our efforts. Masayuki Tadokoro Chair, Asteion Editorial Committee