Japan's holy war
Subtitle: the ideology of radical Shintō ultranationalism
By: Walter A. Skya.
Series: Asia-pacific; Asia-Pacific
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780822344254; 9780822344230
Subjects: Shinto and state -- History -- 1868-; Religion and state -- Japan -- History -- 1868-; Nationalism -- Japan -- Religious aspects; Sovereignty -- Religious aspects
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references  and index.
Table of contents: title: From constitutional monarchy to absolutist theory; title: Hozumi Yatsuka : the religious völkish family-state; title: Minobe Tatsukichi : the secularization of politics; title: Kita Ikki: a social-democratic critique of absolute monarchy; title: The rise of mass nationalism; title: Uesugi Shinkichi : the emperor and the masses; title: Kakehi Katsuhiko : the Japanese emperor state at the center of the Shintō cosmology; title: Radical Shintō ultranationalism and its triumph in the early Shōwa period; title: Terrorism in the land of the gods; title: Orthodoxation of a holy war.