Why Prewar Japanese Historians Did Not Tell the Truth

Brownlee, John S.

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“…Other distinctions that may prove to be important include the number of people “in the know”; whether the lie is directly contradicted by widely known facts (as in the Great Famine) or is limited to, say, events in the distant past about which the evidence is more easily distorted (Brownlee 2000); whether the lie is closely entwined with an organization’s purpose, as in Bletchley Park, or secondary and kept only to avoid embarrassment and loss of standing or moral authority, as in the case of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church; and of course, the sort of organization promulgating the deception—a government, a corporation, a religious cult, and so on. If this article has sought commonalities more than it has drawn such distinctions, it was only so as to make the strongest possible case that there is a coherent phenomenon—long-lived deception—that deserves sustained theoretical and empirical consideration.…”

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Enduring Illusions

Gibson

2014

Sociological Theory

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Sociologists theorize that people comply with the dictates of states and other organizations out of self-interest or because of the perceived legitimacy of those in authority. Some organizations, however, are based on lies, or secrets, and it would seem that these should be very short-lived, given how easy it is for the truth to escape. This article lays the foundations of a sociology of deception, focusing on lies and secrets successfully maintained for years or even decades. The ideas of Goffman and Simmel provide a theoretical starting point. Then Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme is considered as a case study. Drawing on that and other examples, the article culminates in a theory that distinguishes between barriers to knowing, barriers to asking, barriers to telling, barriers to perceiving, barriers to believing, and barriers to acting. Together, these may counter the natural entropic tendency for information to leak and diffuse, in part because the effectiveness of one sort of barrier may offset imperfections in others.

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Enduring Illusions

Gibson

2014

Sociological Theory

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The Tensions of Heterochronicity on Cartographies of Imperial Motion in Japan

Leca

2020

Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion

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This chapter analyses the ways, in which intersections between historical narratives and cartographic design shaped the spatial imaginary of Japanese audiences. It follows early modern, modern, and contemporary visualizations of two narratives of imperial movement in Japan: the eastward march of the legendary first Emperor Jinmu and the Korean campaign of the equally legendary Empress Jingu. The study cases show how cartography was enlisted for a range of purposes, from confident depictions of exemplary movements to dynamic trajectories that accommodated multiple points of view. The study thus provides an example of the diagnostic value of historical motion maps as a litmus test for the agendas to which historical and geographical knowledge were employed by different ideological positions.

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Why Prewar Japanese Historians Did Not Tell the Truth

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The Tensions of Heterochronicity on Cartographies of Imperial Motion in Japan

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