Tessere la trama della storia. Note sul giubileo nazionale giapponese (1968)

This paper presents some preliminary reflections on three aspects of the Meiji Centennial, the national jubilee held in 1968 to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the Meiji Restoration: intergenerational rhetoric; the peculiar role played by the two peripheries of the archipelago with their absence (Okinawa), or enhanced presence (Hokkaidō's "double centennial"); the teleological nature of the dominant narrative supported by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.