kokutai (English, noun)
expansion: kokutai (uncountable)
expansion: (Japanese politics, philosophy, chiefly historical)
Senses:
topics: government
human-sciences
philosophy
politics
sciences
wikidata: Q1204868
glosses: The national essence and character of Japan viewed as conforming to Shinto-Confucian ideals, with the emperor as its ethical, spiritual, cultural and political center.
tags: Japanese
historical
uncountable
topics: government
human-sciences
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: The ideology centered on the principle of kokutai.
tags: Japanese
historical
uncountable
Forms: