The Spirit of Japan
Rabindranath Tagore, 1916
22 pages
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✔ Indian poet and his friendship with Japan
✔ His speech at a university in Japan
✔ Critique of the modernisation of Japan
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★★★★★ A speech he gave at Keio University in Tokyo in 1916. Full of warnings for Japan that he had loved, at the time Japan was militarising too rapidly. However he still believed in the power of Eastern philosophy.
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A speech he gave as he was departing Japan at Keio University in Tokyo in 1916.
It is critical and full of warnings for Japan that he had loved, at the time Japan was militarising too rapidly. He strongly believed in the power of the East, that the power of Eastern philosophy
It's well known that he though he was fond of Japan and its culture and arts, he was very concerned about the rapid Westernisation of the country, thus going towards the path of colonisers.
Looking at how his own country was getting consumed by the West and how Japan was losing its honourable self, he was unable to contain himself and gave this powerful speech.
However, his warnings are timeless and universal; this "modernisation" is a path to self destruction and the hatred and harm you force upon the others will always come back to yourself.
He strongly believed in the power of the East, that the power of Eastern philosophy would overcome the material power of the West, just like the sun that is always there even if the cloud might cover the sun temporarily.
Short but meaningful book.
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