Japan S Holy War
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Japan S Holy War
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Author : Walter Skya
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2009-03-13
Japan S Holy War written by Walter Skya and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-13 with History categories.
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 That, in turn, was superseded by a totalitarian ideology centered on the emperor: an ideology advanced by the political theorists Uesugi Shinkichi and Kakehi Katsuhiko in the 1910s and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 Military Masters
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Author : Hillis Lory
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-02
Japan S Military Masters written by Hillis Lory and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-02 with History categories.
THE REALISTIC FACTS ABOUT JAPAN’S CAPACITY—IN MANPOWER AND IN NATIONAL MORALE—TO FIGHT THE “HOLY WAR” HER MILITARY LEADERS HAVE SO LONG PLANNED FOR HER In Japanese Military Masters: The Army in Japanese Life, author Hillis Lory answers fundamental questions in satisfactory detail. He describes the life and though of the peasant, the motives and personalities of the men close to the Throne. He traces the evolution of Japanese government from feudalism to modern power politics. He records the assassinations, the rebellions, the secret societies, the coups d’état that have shaped it. He recalls the struggle between the liberal and the military leaders for control of Japan’s destiny. “Among the many books about Japan that have appeared since Pearl Harbor, this book is one of the few that could fairly be called indispensable for its high informational content. The author has learned about as much as any foreign could learn about the organization and psychology and training and general make-up of the Japanese Army. And he puts his material together in the style of a good military report, without padding and exaggeration.—The New York Times Book Review
Sacred War
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Author : Theodore F. Cook
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2024-08-06
Sacred War written by Theodore F. Cook and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-06 with History categories.
The first effort to reconstruct the history of the Pacific War exclusively from internal Japanese sources, from the renowned historians A magisterial work of political, social, and military history, Sacred War sets a new standard for understanding the events that forever transformed America, Japan, and the world. Celebrated historians Theodore F. and Haruko Taya Cook, whose oral history of the Pacific war was called “one of the essential books about World War II” (Philadelphia Inquirer), now offer a shattering new history of Japan’s long war in the Pacific, told exclusively from the perspective of the Japanese. Sacred War draws on a rich trove of documents, much of it first-person and almost all of it previously inaccessible to Western scholars. Based on painstaking research, here is World War II through the eyes of the Japanese themselves: ordinary people on the home front, soldiers on the front lines, and the military and political leadership who drove Japan to near-annihilation by 1945. Sacred War reveals both the internal logic of an authoritarian society bent on victory at all costs—including, in the final twelve months of the war, over one million civilian deaths—as well as heart-rending accounts of the unfolding conflict, from the disease-ridden beaches on Guadalcanal to the burnt-out streets of Hiroshima, following the nuclear attacks by the United States that brought the war to its devastating end.
Japan And The Great War
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Author : Antony Best
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-10-05
Japan And The Great War written by Antony Best and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-05 with History categories.
In this book, seven internationally renowned experts on Japanese and Asian history have come together to investigate, with innovative methodological approaches, various aspects of the Japanese experience during and after the First World War.
Japan S Decision For War
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Author : Louis Morton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Japan S Decision For War written by Louis Morton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Japan categories.
Zen At War
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Author : Brian Daizen Victoria
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2006-06-22
Zen At War written by Brian Daizen Victoria and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-22 with History categories.
A compelling history of the contradictory, often militaristic, role of Zen Buddhism, this book meticulously documents the close and previously unknown support of a supposedly peaceful religion for Japanese militarism throughout World War II. Drawing on the writings and speeches of leading Zen masters and scholars, Brian Victoria shows that Zen served as a powerful foundation for the fanatical and suicidal spirit displayed by the imperial Japanese military. At the same time, the author recounts the dramatic and tragic stories of the handful of Buddhist organizations and individuals that dared to oppose Japan's march to war. He follows this history up through recent apologies by several Zen sects for their support of the war and the way support for militarism was transformed into 'corporate Zen' in postwar Japan. The second edition includes a substantive new chapter on the roots of Zen militarism and an epilogue that explores the potentially volatile mix of religion and war. With the increasing interest in Buddhism in the West, this book is as timely as it is certain to be controversial.
Heroic Japan
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Author : F. Warrington Eastlake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Heroic Japan written by F. Warrington Eastlake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Chinese-Japanese War, 1894-1895 categories.
War And Militarism In Modern Japan
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Author : Guy Podoler
language : en
Publisher: Global Oriental
Release Date : 2009
War And Militarism In Modern Japan written by Guy Podoler and has been published by Global Oriental this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
A considerable amount of writing has been published on Japan at war in WWII. Scholars have been revisiting the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5. This volume examines Japan’s twentieth-century approach to war and militarism in a wider perspective, bringing hitherto unexamined new themes and subject-matter under scrutiny up to the present day.
Grassroots Fascism
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Author : Yoshimi Yoshiaki
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-24
Grassroots Fascism written by Yoshimi Yoshiaki and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-24 with History categories.
Grassroots Fascism profiles the Asia Pacific War (1937–1945)—the most important though least understood experience of Japan's modern history—through the lens of ordinary Japanese life. Moving deftly from the struggles of the home front to the occupied territories to the ravages of the front line, the book offers rare insights into popular experiences from the war's troubled beginnings through Japan's disastrous defeat in 1945 and the new beginning it heralded. Yoshimi Yoshiaki mobilizes diaries, letters, memoirs, and government documents to portray the ambivalent position of ordinary Japanese as both wartime victims and active participants. He also provides penetrating accounts of the war experiences of Japan's minorities and imperial subjects, including Koreans and Taiwanese. His book challenges the idea that the Japanese people operated as a mere conduit for the military during the war, passively accepting an imperial ideology imposed upon them by the political elite. Viewed from the bottom up, wartime Japan unfolds as a complex modern mass society, with a corresponding variety of popular roles and agendas. In chronicling the diversity of wartime Japanese social experience, Yoshimi's account elevates our understanding of "Japanese Fascism." In its relation of World War II to the evolution—and destruction—of empire, it makes a fresh contribution to the global history of the war. Ethan Mark's translation supplements the Japanese original with explanatory notes and an in-depth introduction that situates the work within Japanese studies and global history.
Japan S War
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Author : Edwin Palmer Hoyt
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2001
Japan S War written by Edwin Palmer Hoyt and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Japan categories.
Tracing the history of Japanese aggression from 1853 onward, Hoyt masterfully addresses some of the biggest questions left from the Pacific front of World War II.