If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Lecture series was launched in 2007 by the Japan Studies Committee to honor the legacy of Tetsuo Najita, the Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Departments of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC), and the College, and his contribution to the University of Chicago over his long career. This year’s lecture by Ryuichi Narita, professor of history at Japan Women’s University, is entitled “The Various Routes of Post-WWII Japanese Intellectuals: Their Perspectives on the War and World.” What was the role of Japanese intellectuals in the postwar period on the level of both ideas and actions? This presentation explores the paths taken by such figures as Maruyama Masao, Yamaguchi Masao, Oe Kenzaburo, Ueno Chizuko, and Karatani Kojin from the early postwar period to the present.