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Author Smethurst, Richard J.

Title A social basis for prewar Japanese militarism : the army and the rural community / Richard J. Smethurst
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1974]
©1974

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Description xxi, 202 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Yamagata Ariomo, Tanaka Giichi and the founding of the Reservist Association -- The Army, youth, and women -- The Army, the hamlet, and the village : the structure and membership of the organizations -- The local leadership and financing of the organizations -- The activities of the four organizations
Summary "The major part of this study will be based on data collected in a number of rural communities? Discussions of the activities of the army?s organizations in these communities will be presented as case studies of the military?s efforts at the socialization of civilians. The local materials are drawn from a collection of unpublished Anj? materials, from interview and questionnaire information? and from a few local youth association histories? The interviews and questionnaires are especially important because of the dearth of other local documentation; many of the materials that were not destroyed by American strategic bombing were burned by order of the reserve association?s national headquarters in August, 1945, or were sold as wastepaper after the war "--Page xix
Analysis Japan Armed Forces Political activity
Militarism Japan
Japan Rural regions Militarism Development ca 1890-1941
Notes "Published under the auspices of the Center fro Japanese and Korean Studies, University of California, Berkley"--Prelim
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-198) and index
Subject Militarism -- Japan.
Patriotic societies -- Japan.
Patriotic societies.
SUBJECT Japan -- Armed Forces http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115601 -- Political activity. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011434
Author University of California, Berkeley. Center for Japanese and Korean Studies.
LC no. 73084385
ISBN 0520025520