Nationalisms in Japan / edited by Naoko Shimazu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shimazu, Naoko, 1964-

Series:

Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--History--1868-.

Japan.

History.

Nationalism--Japan.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

xi, 196 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

Nationalisms in Japan brings together leading specialists in the field to critically examine different notions and manifestations of 'nationalism' in the political, social and cultural contexts of modern and contemporary Japan. The book encompasses a period of two hundred years, and includes discussions of the early Japanese national thinkers of the Mito School, the conscripts in the Russo-Japanese War, Japan's ambiguous internationalists of the 1920s, the national extremists in the 1930s, the Ainu moshiri and its implications, the history textbook controversy of the 1990s and ends with a contemporary debate of the official visit made by Prime Minister Koizumi Jun'ichiro to the highly controversial Yasukuni Shrine.

This contemporary and interdisciplinary study draws important conclusions about the evolution of nationalism as a concept in Japan. Through in-depth analysis by a leading team of scholars, the book argues persuasively that competing forms of nationalism or more accurately, nationalisms, can and do exist in Japan at any one time. Its findings call for a more nuanced and sophisticated study of nationalisms in Japan. This timely reassessment in the face of recent neo-nationalist sentiment provides valuable insight and will be essential reading for academics working on modern Japan and on comparative study of nationalism.

Contents:

1 Japanese national doctrines in international perspective / Erica Benner 9

2 Reading the diaries of Japanese conscripts: forging national consciousness during the Russo-Japanese war / Naoko Shimazu 41

3 Internationalism and nationalism: anti-Western sentiments in Japanese foreign policy debates, 1918-22 / Harumi Goto-Shibata 66

4 Japanese nationalist extremism, 1921-41, in historical perspective / Stephen S. Large 85

5 The making of Ainu moshiri: Japan's indigenous nationalism and its cultural fictions / Richard Siddle 110

6 The battle for hearts and minds: patriotic education in Japan in the 1990s and beyond / Caroline Rose 131

7 The national politics of the Yasukuni Shrine / Tetsuya Takahashi 155

Conclusion: Towards nationalisms in Japan / Naoko Shimazu 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415400538

OCLC:

62324895

Publisher Number:

9780415400534

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