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2012年10月 月次レポート（マヤ・ヴォドピヴェッツ オランダ）
Research report for October 2012
Maja Vodopivec
Leiden University Institute of Area Studies (LIAS)
In October I tried to summarize all Kato's writings on the 1960 Anpo struggle in Japan, and 1968 movements in Japan and the world. I also tried to view it in the light of the writings on the same topic of other Kato's contemporaries, such as Hidaka Rokuro and Oda Makoto.
Kato, similarly as Oda Makoto, connected the year 1968 with the 9.11 and the War on Terrorism. A considerable attention he devoted to the analyses of the Vietnam War and NPT Treaty and its inequalities. I was trying to answer the question in which way Kato saw the end of the Cold War and its heritage in Japan and in the world. Within this question, it was unavoidable to turn attention to Kato's essays on the fiftieth anniversary of atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I also re-read several Iwanami and Kamogawa booklets that Kato wrote in the last decade of his life - mostly about what and how he did on transferring his experience to the younger generations - high school students. It is very much related to his activism in the Association for Article 9 Preservation.