Japan's Holy War The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism

Name: Japan's Holy War The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism
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ISBN: 9780822344230

ISBN-10: 0822344238

ISBN-13: 9780822344230

Edition: 2009

Authors: Walter Skya, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi

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Japan's Holy Warreveals how a radical religious ideology drove the Japanese to imperial expansion and global war. Bringing to light a wealth of new research, Walter A. Skya demonstrates that whatever other motives the Japanese had for waging war in the Pacific, for many the war was the fulfillment of a religious mandate. In the early twentieth century, a fervent nationalism developed within State Shinto. This ultranationalism gained widespread military and public support and led to rampant terrorism; between 1921 and 1935 three serving and three former prime ministers were assassinated. Shinto ultranationalist societies fomented a discourse calling for the abolition of parliamentary…

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List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 4/3/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.40" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Emperor Ideology and the Debate over State and Sovereignty in the Late Meiji Period



From Constitutional Monarchy to Absolutist Theory



Hozumi Yatsuka: The Religious V&oumlet;lkisch Family-State



Minobe Tatsukichi: The Secularization of Politics



Kita Ikki: A Social-Democratic Critique of Absolute Monarchy



Emperor Ideology and the Debate over State and Sovereignty in the Taish&obar; Period



The Rise of Mass Nationalism



Uesugi Shinkichi: The Emperor and the Masses



Kakehi Katsuhiko: The Japanese Emperor State at the Center of the Shint&obar; Cosmology



Radical Shint&obar; Ultranationalism and Its Triumph in the Early Sh&obar;wa Period



Terrorism in the Land of the Gods



Orthodoxation of a Holy War


Conclusion


Notes


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Index