Japan's Holy War
Title | Japan's Holy War PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Skya |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2009-04-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822392461 |
Japan’s Holy War reveals how a radical religious ideology drove the Japanese to imperial expansion and global war. Bringing to light a wealth of new information, Walter A. Skya demonstrates that whatever other motives the Japanese had for waging war in Asia and the Pacific, for many the war was the fulfillment of a religious mandate. In the early twentieth century, a fervent nationalism developed within State Shintō. This ultranationalism gained widespread military and public support and led to rampant terrorism; between 1921 and 1936 three serving and two former prime ministers were assassinated. Shintō ultranationalist societies fomented a discourse calling for the abolition of parliamentary government and unlimited Japanese expansion. Skya documents a transformation in the ideology of State Shintō in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. He shows that within the religion, support for the German-inspired theory of constitutional monarchy that had underpinned the Meiji Constitution gave way to a theory of absolute monarchy advocated by the constitutional scholar Hozumi Yatsuka in the late 1890s. That, in turn, was superseded by a totalitarian ideology centered on the emperor: an ideology advanced by the political theorists Uesugi Shinkichi and Kakehi Katsuhiko in the 1910s and 1920s. Examining the connections between various forms of Shintō nationalism and the state, Skya demonstrates that where the Meiji oligarchs had constructed a quasi-religious, quasi-secular state, Hozumi Yatsuka desired a traditional theocratic state. Uesugi Shinkichi and Kakehi Katsuhiko went further, encouraging radical, militant forms of extreme religious nationalism. Skya suggests that the creeping democracy and secularization of Japan’s political order in the early twentieth century were the principal causes of the terrorism of the 1930s, which ultimately led to a holy war against Western civilization.
Japan's War
Title | Japan's War PDF eBook |
Author | Stewart Binns |
Publisher | Wildfire |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2025-04-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781472295217 |
A new perspective on Japanese tactics during the Asia-Pacific War, using remarkable first-hand Japanese source material. Even after eighty years since the end of a conflict that killed at least thirty-five million people, there remains a deep well of bitterness and anger about the way the Asia Pacific War was fought and the behaviour of the combatants, especially the Japanese. Japan has been vilified for its aggression and condemned for the countless examples of its cruelty to civilians and prisoners of war. In turn, those criticisms have led to a backlash in Japan, where many deny that the accusations are true. By going back to the origins of modern Japan, and by using only Japanese accounts, Seisen - Japan's Holy War against the West - will offer a powerful yet dispassionate account of the events of the war and explain in detail why Japan and the Japanese did what they did.
The Holy War
Title | The Holy War PDF eBook |
Author | Mas Slamet |
Publisher | |
Pages | 15 |
Release | 1946 |
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Japan's War
Title | Japan's War PDF eBook |
Author | Stewart Binns |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2025-04-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1472295234 |
A new perspective on Japanese tactics during the Asia-Pacific War, using remarkable first-hand Japanese source material. Even after eighty years since the end of a conflict that killed at least thirty-five million people, there remains a deep well of bitterness and anger about the way the Asia Pacific War was fought and the behaviour of the combatants, especially the Japanese. Japan has been vilified for its aggression and condemned for the countless examples of its cruelty to civilians and prisoners of war. In turn, those criticisms have led to a backlash in Japan, where many deny that the accusations are true. By going back to the origins of modern Japan, and by using only Japanese accounts, Seisen - Japan's Holy War against the West - will offer a powerful yet dispassionate account of the events of the war and explain in detail why Japan and the Japanese did what they did.
The Holy War 'made in Japan'. Japanese Machinations Dl. II
Title | The Holy War 'made in Japan'. Japanese Machinations Dl. II PDF eBook |
Author | M. Slamet |
Publisher | |
Pages | 15 |
Release | 1946 |
Genre | |
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Japan and Holy War
Title | Japan and Holy War PDF eBook |
Author | Kazuko Tsurumi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Japan |
ISBN |
War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945–2005
Title | War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945–2005 PDF eBook |
Author | Franziska Seraphim |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 2020-03-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1684174473 |
"Japan has long wrestled with the memories and legacies of World War II. In the aftermath of defeat, war memory developed as an integral part of particular and divergent approaches to postwar democracy. In the last six decades, the demands placed upon postwar democracy have shifted considerably—from social protest through high economic growth to Japan’s relations in Asia—and the meanings of the war shifted with them.This book unravels the political dynamics that governed the place of war memory in public life. Far from reconciling with the victims of Japanese imperialism, successive conservative administrations have left the memory of the war to representatives of special interests and citizen movements, all of whom used war memory to further their own interests.Franziska Seraphim traces the activism of five prominent civic organizations to examine the ways in which diverse organized memories have secured legitimate niches within the public sphere. The history of these domestic conflicts—over the commemoration of the war dead, the manipulation of national symbols, the teaching of history, or the articulation of relations with China and Korea—is crucial to the current discourse about apology and reconciliation in East Asia, and provides essential context for the global debate on war memory."