昭南興亜訓練所と南方特別留学生に関与した仏教者 : 浄土真宗本願寺派僧侶の金谷哲麿=Tetsumaro Kanaya : A Buddhist Priest in the Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha (Nishihongwanji) Involved in the Shonan Koa Kunrenjo and the Nanpo Tokubetsu Ryugakusei
大谷光瑞=Kōzui ŌTANI; 第二次世界大戦=World War II; マレー半島=Malay peninsula; 日本軍政=Japanese military administration; 日本占領下東南アジア=Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia
摘要
During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army invaded Southeast Asia and occupied the captured regions. The military administration was staffed by army officers and civilians from mainland Japan. Tetsumaro Kanaya (1895–1945) joined the religious staff of the military administration during the course of Japan’s occupation of British Malaya (now Malaysia). Kanaya was a priest of the Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha (Nishihongwanji). Under the influence of Kōzui Ōtani (1876–1948), the former 22nd head priest of the Nishihongwanji and a monk renowned as a pan-Asianism proponent, Kanaya became interested in Southeast Asia and Islam. During the early 1940s, Kanaya conducted extensive research in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and in Taiwan. Subsequently, he was inducted as a civilian employee of the Indochina Expeditionary Army Corps of the Imperial Japanese Army. During Japan’s occupation of Malaya, he became a top instructor at the Shōnan Kōa Kunrenjo (Asia Development Training Institute) and taught Japanese to the young Malay students, many of whom would become the future leaders of their country. Kanaya brought many of his students from Malay to Japan. Some pursued higher education at mainland Japanese universities such as Nanpō Tokubetsu Ryūgakusei (Special Foreign Students from Southeast Asia). After World War II, a number of the graduates from this program became Malaysian leaders.
