The Impact of Western Rhetoric on the East: The Case of Japan

Abstract

This study is based on research funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education during the perid 1985-86. For more information, see my report, Jidai no Supichi Kyohon ni Arawareta Seiyo Retorikku Riron no Eikyo ni Kansuru Kosatsu (The Influence of Western Rhetorical Theory on the Speech Textbooks Published in the Meiji Era), Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research (#60510268), funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, 1986. A travel grant from the Japan Foundation made it possible for me to present this paper at the Seventh International Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Gottingen, West Germany July 26-29, 1989. ^A recent notable exception was the week-long conference, Rhetoric; East and West, held at the University of Hawaii, June 13-18, 1988, co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the East-West Center and organized by Professor Kathleen H. Jamieson, then of the University of Texas at Austin; this conference included an extensive exploration of the nature of Eastern rhetoric and compared and contrasted it to the rhetoric of the West. Another important exception