From constitutional monarchy to absolutist theory -- Hozumi Yatsuka : the religious völkish 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 Shintō cosmology -- Radical Shintō ultranationalism and its triumph in the early Shōwa period -- Terrorism in the land of the gods -- Orthodoxation of a holy war
Summary
"This is a work of history documenting the late 19th- and early 20th-century transformation of State Shinto into a radical ideology that ultimately drove Japan into a holy war against Western civilization."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-377) and index
Notes
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