My Peace Study https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/ A peace education built from the prefaces and afterwords of books published right after Japan's defeat, and from what people actually did. For people who sigh when another war-and-peace piece shows up. en Studying Peace Through Back Issues of Municipal Newslettershttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/kouhou/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/kouhou/Reading the defeat and the recovery out of municipal newsletters.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0900 Next Door to the Big Eventshttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/nenpu/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/nenpu/What people were doing right next to the events that make it into a chronology. Switch to whichever reading style you like.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0900 The Numbers at the Defeat: Macro and Microhttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/suuji/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/suuji/National statistics and the numbers that turn up in personal records, laid side by side.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0900 The Image of the Defeat, and What the Prefaces Actually Saidhttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/ippan/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/ippan/Eleven widely held images of the defeat, checked against the actual prefaces.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0900 Reading Some of the Prefaces and Afterwordshttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/maeato/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/maeato/Follow the tags and read the prefaces and afterwords of the period as they are.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0900 The Same Person, Two Recordshttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/jinbutsu/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/jinbutsu/The 23 people who appear in both "Next Door to the Big Events" and the prefaces and afterwords, matched by name.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0900 Analyzing Subjective Data Objectivelyhttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/objecti/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/objecti/Measuring the notes I picked subjectively, first of all as subjectivity.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0900 A Road Map to General Knowledgehttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/sonosaki/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/sonosaki/For people who have come to want to study the war directly.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0900 About the Data Used Here: How It Was Counted, and How It Is Skewedhttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/method/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/method/How the counts are made, and the four skews in this data (subjective extraction / it is promotional copy / it passed censorship / the people who could publish were a minority).Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0900 The Repentance of the Hundred Million Was Probably an "Oh, That Again, Lol"https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/zange/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/zange/There was a hundred-million-strong self-reflection during the war too. So the repentance was not a new story either.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0900 The Stubborn Old Man of the Gas Industry Who Did Not Flip His Position Between the Eve of Defeat and Just After Ithttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/hakuun/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/hakuun/The intellectuals are said to have turned 180 degrees. There were stubborn old men who did not turn at all.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0900 How to Build a Small Systemhttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/taikei/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/taikei/A guide for people who want to systematize what they have learned.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0900 The People Who Wanted to Keep Publishing Magazines Even in Wartimehttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/zasshi/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/zasshi/The force of Tsuchiya Bunmei; those who kept their promise, those who could not, and those who carried it on.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0900 If a World Championship of War Remorse Broke Out, Japan Might Winhttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/hansei/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/hansei/Try to measure remorse and you stop knowing what it is you are supposed to measure.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0900 The People Who Felt Refreshed When the War Beganhttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/kaisen/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/kaisen/Quite a lot of people felt refreshed about it.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0900 The People Who Published in 1946https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/1946/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/1946/In 1946, with printing conditions at their worst, people forced books and magazines out anyway.Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0900 The People Who Listened to Shortwave Radio During the Warhttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/tanpa/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/tanpa/Youth in wartime: hard-line leftists and hard-line rightists breaking the law together, on good terms.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0900 I Read All 5,728 Prefaces and Afterwordshttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/main/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/main/A record of reading every preface and afterword in the books published between June 1945 and September 1946.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0900 Nakae Chōmin's "There Is No Philosophy in Japan", in Modern Languagehttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/tetsugaku/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/tetsugaku/I put "There is no philosophy in Japan" into modern language.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0900 The Skew in the NDC Categories Just After the End of the Warhttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/ndc/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/ndc/Compare the 3,564 items published in 1945-46 against 1.58 million across all periods and you can see which kinds of books are abnormally frequent.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0900 What I Think Peace Education Is, and How I Made Thishttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/about/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/about/Why I made it, and how I made it.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0900 The People the War Made Stupiderhttps://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/atama/https://yamashitataihei.org/peace/en/atama/The war made part of some very intelligent people's minds go stupid.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0900