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Japanese economic progress after World War II undermined the appeal of pre-war militarist nationalism, showing a path to prosperity was possible without colonies. The 1970s witnessed Japan's adoption of three fundamental tenets that would seek to define and direct Japanese internationalism, all concerning the need for Japanese initiatives in ...
13 sie 2021 · Critics in Japan see Yasukuni as a symbol of a militarist past and say leaders' visits violate the separation of religion and state mandated by the post-war constitution.
20 sie 2015 · In a series of articles written especially for Library of Social Science, acclaimed author Walter Skya will explore and analyze the ideological sources of Japan’s participation in the Second World War.
1 paź 2010 · Why did almost one thousand highly educated "student soldiers" volunteer to serve in Japan's tokkotai (kamikaze) operations near the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? In this fascinating study of the role of symbolism and aesthetics in totalitarian ideology, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney shows how the state manipulated the time ...
The meaning of World War II is still elusive for the war projects conflicting self-images of Japan in Asia and the Pacific: friend, guardian, aggressor, weak. At the same time, ironically, the war seems in. Japan unprecedented peace and prosperity. retain its nation-state under the imperial family,
9 lip 2022 · Or: Japan’s nationalists and revisionists urge Japan to stop beating itself up over its World War II militarism and imperialism, as Japan was in reality fighting a ‘war of liberation’ in Asia, liberating Asia from European colonial powers.
this reawakening to the dilemmas of ethnicity in wartime and postwar Japan. In place of such hoary tropes as "war," "the emperor," and "the state," historians have increasingly turned to "colonies," "empire," and "min-. zoku" (ethnic nation) to capture a broader range of cultural and ideological.
