HARA KENSABURO

LIFE OF HARA KENSABURO

According to the University of Oregon web site, Kensaburo Hara M.A. '36 became a member of Japan's House of Representatives in 1946, in that nation's first election following World War II. Over the next fifty years, Hara served as minister of labor, minister of the interior, and speaker of the House of Representatives. He was reelected to the house twenty times and received the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, paulownia crest, from His Majesty the Emperor in 1995.


HARA KENSABURO BIBLIOGRAPHY 

• Hara Kensaburo, The Nipponistic Reconstruction of Japan.  Eugene: University of Oregon, 1936.  [.pdf format]
  This is Hara's MA thesis in the Department of Economics.  While theses are sometimes less than page-turners, Hara's thesis is fascinating for its rather appreciative view of fascism. Taken together with other items available from e-Asia, the turn of Japan into a political direction that led to World War II becomes more complex than an unfortunate instance of rampant militarism.