Walter Skya

Japan's Holy War

The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Japan's Holy War reveals 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 i

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344254
• ISBN-10: 0822344254
• Artikelnr.: 25882203

Autorenporträt

Walter Skya is Director of the Asian Studies Program and Associate Professor of History at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
I. Emperor Ideology and the Debate over State and Sovereignty in the Late
Meiji Period
1. From Constitutional Monarchy to Absolutist Theory 33
2. Hozumi Yatsuka: The Religious Volkisch Family-State 53
3. Minobe Tatsukichi: The Secularization of Politics 82
4. Kita Ikki: A Social-Democratic Critique of Absolute Monarchy 112
II. Emperor Ideology and the Debate over State and Sovereignty in the
Taisho Period
5. The Rise of Mass Nationalism 131
6. Uesugi Shinkichi: The Emperor and the Masses 153
7. Kakehi Katsuhiko: The Japanese Emperor State at the Center of the Shinto
Cosmology 185
III. Radical Shinto Ultranationalism and Its Triumph in the Early Showa
Period
8. Terrorism in the Land of the Gods 229
9. Orthodoxation of a Holy War 262
Conclusion 297
Notes 329
Select Bibliography 363
Index 379