『関西公園 Public Blue』は、日本における公共空間の暴力的な強制撤去、そして、このような囲い込みへの対抗のなかで形成されたコミュニティについてのドキュメンタリーによる考察です。それに対して、私たちがこの場に形成したいのは私たち自身の公共空間です。すなわち、さまざまな異議申し立ての見解を伝達するための、もっと具体的にいえば、英語と日本語による批判的テキストを提示するための広場なのです。以下のすべてのテキストがPDFフォーマットです。ダウンロードするときは、当該テキストの画面を右クリックして保存してください。このテキスト集にふさわしいテキストをお持ちの方は、ぜひ関西公園までeメールしてくださるようおねがいします。

As 関西公園・Public Blue is a documentary meditation on the violent eviction of public space in Japan, as well as the community brought together in opposition to this enclosure, here we create our own public space, a forum for the airing of dissenting views, and specifically, for critical texts in English and Japanese. All of the documents below are in PDF format. To download them, right click on the appropriate image and save. If you have a text you think would be appropriate for the library, please email us at kansaikouen.

Kobayashi Kengo discusses the case of elderly workers in Japan losing jobs when new workers enter the labor markets, known as Yoseba, such as Sanya in Tokyo and Kamagasaki in Osaka.

Kan Takayuki takes a long, hard look at the historical and cultural factors underlying the public reaction to the illness, death and funeral of Hirohito Tenno.

小杉邦夫のすばらしい昔の釜ヶ崎の近所や闘争などの写真集。
An excellent photo compilation of the Kamagasaki neighorhood and its struggles throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

山谷、釜ヶ崎で活動していた船本洲治の文集。
A compilation of Hashimoto Shuuji's writings (Japanese only).

Douglas Lummis and Kogawa Tetsuo discuss Japan as a managed society.

Odawara Norio reflects on the 'Day of Mourning' enforced on Japanese citizens to mourn the Showa Emperor after his death in 1989.

"The Meaning of Tiananmen"
Burt Green remembers the revolutionary power of those fateful months in Beijing.

Totsuka Hideo discusses the phenomena of 'Japanese management', and its appeal in the form of 'humanizing capitalism'.

"Preliminary Theses for a Longer Discussion on Essentialism and the Problem of Identity Politics" Lawrence Jarach breaks down the problematics of identity politics and counter-essentialism.

Nomura Masami is interviewed about the productive system called Toyotism in contrast to Fordist modes of organization.

Okamura Tatsuo examines the links between life in Japanese schools and the aims of the Japanese state.

Ota Maliku, a 16-year old school refuser argues against the school system and instead for 'self-rule by children'.

Watanabe Ben analyzes the dissolution of the once-militant Sohyo union into the pro-management Rengo union in 1989

Tom Gill examines the films of Okuzaki Kenzo, a Japanese soldier during the second World War, who blames the Showa Emperor Hirohito for the conduct and outcome of the war.

Nakagawa Nobuaki examines the danger of speaking out against the Emperor system in Japan.

Hayashi Masayuki examines the ideology and organizations of Japan's extreme right wing, the 'uyoku'.

Amano Yasukazu reflects on the death of the Showa emperor in 1989, focusing on the Japanese public's reaction to the death.

Montse Watkins describes the contradictory phenomenon of 'foreign Japanese' workers returning to Japan.

Muto Ichiyo & Inoue Reiko examine the important history of the Japanese New Left. This chapter focuses on the late 1960s, which included the 'free-university' Zenkyoto movement at Nichidai university.

Kumazawa Makoto critiques the traditional stance of the teachers' union of considering progressive education to be a desirable social policy without considering the ways in which it accords with a more conservative agenda.