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Japan's holy war : the ideology of radical Shinto ultranationalism / Walter A. Skya.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skya, Walter.
- Series:
- Asia-Pacific.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Asia-pacific
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shinto and state--History--1868-.
- Shinto and state.
- Religion and state--Japan--History--1868-.
- Religion and state.
- Nationalism--Japan--Religious aspects.
- Nationalism.
- Sovereignty--Religious aspects.
- Sovereignty.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (402 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- From constitutional monarchy to absolutist theory
- Hozumi Yatsuka : the religious volkish family-state
- Minobe Tatsukichi : the secularization of politics
- Kita Ikki: a social-democratic critique of absolute monarchy
- The rise of mass nationalism
- Uesugi Shinkichi : the emperor and the masses
- Kakehi Katsuhiko : the Japanese emperor state at the center of the Shinto cosmology
- Radical Shinto ultranationalism and its triumph in the early Showa period
- Terrorism in the land of the gods
- Orthodoxation of a holy war.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613065490
- 9780822344230
- 0822344238
- 9781283065498
- 1283065495
- OCLC:
- 646719684
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