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    ISBN
    9780822344230

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    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Duke University Press
    ISBN-10
    0822344238
    ISBN-13
    9780822344230
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    71770406

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Japan's Holy War : the Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism
    Number of Pages
    400 Pages
    Language
    English
    Topic
    Asia / Japan, Modern / 20th Century, History & Theory, Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, Shintoism, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
    Publication Year
    2009
    Illustrator
    Yes
    Genre
    Religion, Political Science, History
    Author
    Walter Skya
    Book Series
    Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society Ser.
    Format
    Trade Paperback

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    1.2 in
    Item Weight
    20 oz
    Item Length
    9.4 in
    Item Width
    6.3 in

    Additional Product Features

    LCCN
    2008-051089
    Dewey Edition
    22
    Reviews
    "Japan's Holy War is an important work. Walter A. Skya shows clearly that religious ideologies play various roles in public life; State ShintÅ� transformed from an ideology deeply supportive of entrenched authority to one profoundly and violently opposed to it."- Mark Juergensmeyer , author of Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, Walter Skya deserves praise for writing what is perhaps the only extensive study in English in decades that focuses on right-wing Shinto nationalism until 1945. . . . [T]his book is an important contribution to ongoing discussions on the significance of Shinto in modern Japan's political arena., " Japan's Holy War is an absolutely outstanding and necessary work, a major contribution to international scholarly debate. Walter A. Skya gives the most convincing account to date of ShintÅ�'s ideological implications. His book will become the standard work on the intellectual and ideological history of modern ShintÅ�."-- Klaus Antoni , University of Tübingen, "Walter A. Skya has something new and important to say about Japanese nationalism, and he says it through compelling, thorough research and documentation. Over and against the excessively abstract analyses that see Japanese nationalism as a monolithic, ahistorical force, he reveals how it changed as it responded to contingent events. Such an exciting, theoretically informed, comparative study of Japanese nationalism is long overdue."- Kevin M. Doak , author of A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People, "The careful reader will come away with a very detailed overview of prewar Japanese fascism. The book is very detailed, very well written, and carefully researched. Japan's Holy War is a classic work that should be on the reading list of any scholar of Japanese history who wishes to gain some deeper insights into the direction of Japanese politics from the late 1920s through World War II. A Japanese translation of this book should be made as soon as possible. Skyra is to be commended for this major academic achievement." - Daniel A. M traux, Virginia Review of Asian Studies, "The careful reader will come away with a very detailed overview of prewar Japanese fascism. The book is very detailed, very well written, and carefully researched. Japan's Holy War is a classic work that should be on the reading list of any scholar of Japanese history who wishes to gain some deeper insights into the direction of Japanese politics from the late 1920s through World War II. A Japanese translation of this book should be made as soon as possible. Skyra is to be commended for this major academic achievement." - Daniel A. Mtraux, Virginia Review of Asian Studies, “Japan’s Holy War is an important work. Walter A. Skya shows clearly that religious ideologies play various roles in public life; State Shinto transformed from an ideology deeply supportive of entrenched authority to one profoundly and violently opposed to it.â€�- Mark Juergensmeyer , author of Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, " Japan's Holy War is an absolutely outstanding and necessary work, a major contribution to international scholarly debate. Walter A. Skya gives the most convincing account to date of ShintÅ�'s ideological implications. His book will become the standard work on the intellectual and ideological history of modern ShintÅ�."-- Klaus Antoni , University of Tbingen, "Japan's Holy War is an important work. Walter A. Skya shows clearly that religious ideologies play various roles in public life; State ShintÅ� transformed from an ideology deeply supportive of entrenched authority to one profoundly and violently opposed to it."-- Mark Juergensmeyer , author of Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, “Walter A. Skya has something new and important to say about Japanese nationalism, and he says it through compelling, thorough research and documentation. Over and against the excessively abstract analyses that see Japanese nationalism as a monolithic, ahistorical force, he reveals how it changed as it responded to contingent events. Such an exciting, theoretically informed, comparative study of Japanese nationalism is long overdue.â€�- Kevin M. Doak , author of A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People, " Japan's Holy War is an absolutely outstanding and necessary work, a major contribution to international scholarly debate. Walter A. Skya gives the most convincing account to date of ShintÅ�'s ideological implications. His book will become the standard work on the intellectual and ideological history of modern ShintÅ�."- Klaus Antoni , University of Tübingen, "Walter A. Skya has something new and important to say about Japanese nationalism, and he says it through compelling, thorough research and documentation. Over and against the excessively abstract analyses that see Japanese nationalism as a monolithic, ahistorical force, he reveals how it changed as it responded to contingent events. Such an exciting, theoretically informed, comparative study of Japanese nationalism is long overdue."-- Kevin M. Doak , author of A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People, "Walter Skya deserves praise for writing what is perhaps the only extensive study in English in decades that focuses on right-wing Shinto nationalism until 1945. . . . [T]his book is an important contribution to ongoing discussions on the significance of Shinto in modern Japan's political arena." - Fabio Rambelli, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, “ Japan’s Holy War is an absolutely outstanding and necessary work, a major contribution to international scholarly debate. Walter A. Skya gives the most convincing account to date of Shinto’s ideological implications. His book will become the standard work on the intellectual and ideological history of modern Shinto.â€�- Klaus Antoni , University of T bingen, "The study may help illuminate some otherwise indecipherable currents of thinking that exist in Japan even today." - Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, "The careful reader will come away with a very detailed overview of prewar Japanese fascism. The book is very detailed, very well written, and carefully researched. Japan's Holy War is a classic work that should be on the reading list of any scholar of Japanese history who wishes to gain some deeper insights into the direction of Japanese politics from the late 1920s through World War II. A Japanese translation of this book should be made as soon as possible. Skyra is to be commended for this major academic achievement." - Daniel A. Métraux, Virginia Review of Asian Studies, " Japan's Holy War makes an important contribution to an understanding of Shinto ideology. Skya overturns the view that the ideology underwent no significant changes, challenging assumptions about the primacy of the ideas of Hotsumi and presenting pioneering analyses of the works of Uesugi and Kakehi. Skya has been thorough in his research of these theorists." - Janice Matsumura, Canadian Journal of History, "Japan's Holy War is an important work. Walter A. Skya shows clearly that religious ideologies play various roles in public life; State Shinto transformed from an ideology deeply supportive of entrenched authority to one profoundly and violently opposed to it."-Mark Juergensmeyer, author of Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence "Walter A. Skya has something new and important to say about Japanese nationalism, and he says it through compelling, thorough research and documentation. Over and against the excessively abstract analyses that see Japanese nationalism as a monolithic, ahistorical force, he reveals how it changed as it responded to contingent events. Such an exciting, theoretically informed, comparative study of Japanese nationalism is long overdue."-Kevin M. Doak, author of A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People "Japan's Holy War is an absolutely outstanding and necessary work, a major contribution to international scholarly debate. Walter A. Skya gives the most convincing account to date of Shinto's ideological implications. His book will become the standard work on the intellectual and ideological history of modern Shinto."-Klaus Antoni, University of TÜbingen
    Dewey Decimal
    320.540952
    Table Of Content
    Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I. Emperor Ideology and the Debate over State and Sovereignty in the Late Meiji Period 1. From Constitutional Monarchy to Absolutist Theory 33 2. Hozumi Yatsuka: The Religious Volkisch Family-State 53 3. Minobe Tatsukichi: The Secularization of Politics 82 4. Kita Ikki: A Social-Democratic Critique of Absolute Monarchy 112 II. Emperor Ideology and the Debate over State and Sovereignty in the Taisho Period 5. The Rise of Mass Nationalism 131 6. Uesugi Shinkichi: The Emperor and the Masses 153 7. Kakehi Katsuhiko: The Japanese Emperor State at the Center of the Shinto Cosmology 185 III. Radical Shinto Ultranationalism and Its Triumph in the Early Showa Period 8. Terrorism in the Land of the Gods 229 9. Orthodoxation of a Holy War 262 Conclusion 297 Notes 329 Select Bibliography 363 Index 379
    Synopsis
    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 Shinto. 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. Shinto 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 Shinto 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 Shinto 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., A work of history documenting the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century transformation of State Shinto into a radical ideology that ultimately drove Japan into a holy war against Western civilization.
    LC Classification Number
    BL2223

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