Skya / Chow / Harootunian Japan's Holy War

The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9246-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

A work of history documenting the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century transformation of State Shinto into a radical ideology that ultimately drove Japan into a holy war against Western civilization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Skya, Walter

Chow, Rey

Harootunian, Harry

Miyoshi, Masao

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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