9. Orthodoxation of a Holy War

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Emperor Ideology and the Debate over State and Sovereignty in the Late Meiji Period
6. 1. From Constitutional Monarchy to Absolutist Theory 33
7. 2. Hozumi Yatsuka: The Religious Völkisch Family-State 53
8. 3. Minobe Tatsukichi: The Secularization of Politics 82
9. 4. Kita Ikki: A Social-Democratic Critique of Absolute Monarchy 112
10. II. Emperor Ideology and the Debate over State and Sovereignty in the Taish¯o Period
11. 5. The Rise of Mass Nationalism 131
12. 6. Uesugi Shinkichi: The Emperor and the Masses 153
13. 7. Kakehi Katsuhiko: The Japanese Emperor State at the Center of the Shint¯o Cosmology 185
14. III. Radical Shint¯o Ultranationalism and Its Triumph in the Early Sh¯owa Period
15. 8. Terrorism in the Land of the Gods 229
16. 9. Orthodoxation of a Holy War 262
17. conclusion 297
18. notes 329
19. select bibliography 363
20. index 379