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Thought Crime
Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan
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Max M. Ward
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
Max Ward explores the Japanese state's efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s through the enforcement of what it called thought crime, providing a window into understanding how modern states develop ideological apparatuses to subject their respective populations.
Author / Editor information
Max M. Ward is Associate Professor of History at Middlebury College and coeditor of Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy.
Reviews
"[Ward] has provided his readers with a well-written account of how between 1920 and the 1930s the Japanese nation endeavored to suppress political radicalism."
-- Augustine Adu Frimpong African and Asian Studies
"Thought Crime offers a lucid reflection on theories of power and the modern state while refusing to fetishize the particularities of the Japanese case."
-- David Ambaras Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Thought Crime sets itself apart from past studies of the Peace Preservation Law by developing a theory of imperial ideology that focuses on its effects on those in proximity to it: bureaucrats, thought criminals, and those who were mobilized to rehabilitate them."
-- John Person Journal of Asian Studies
"Thought Crime is a thought-provoking, intelligent, and necessary book.… It is a must-read for serious students of modern Japanese political and intellectual history."
-- Jeremy A. Yellen Journal of Japanese Studies
"Rigorous and creative explorations of the multiple modalities of state power are much needed in the study of the cultural and social history of modern Japan, and in that respect Thought Crime makes an invaluable contribution to the field."
-- Tomoko Seto Monumenta Nipponica
"This book is nicely written and well-organized, and the author makes excellent use of Japanese-language primary sources. Overall, this is an outstanding piece of research. It makes a substantial contribution to existing works on this topic and is recommended for use in graduate seminars on modern Japanese history."
-- Walter Skya History: Reviews of New Books
"This analysis is a valuable service in increasing our knowledge of the rise of Japanese militarism and the coming of WWII in Asa.… Recommended. Graduate students through faculty."
-- Q. E. Wang Choice
"Thought Crime is a theoretically and archivally rich intervention into discourse surrounding tenkō and the kokutai. . . . Max Ward's incorporation of theory into the body of literature on thought crime in Japan yields an important rethinking of politics and ideology during this most fraught of historical periods."
-- Jason Morgan Japan Review
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface. Policing Ideological Threats, Then and Now
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1. Kokutai and the Aporias of Imperial Sovereignty: The Passage of the Peace Preservation Law in 1925
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2. Transcriptions of Power: Repression and Rehabilitation in the Early Peace Preservation Law Apparatus, 1925–1933
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3. Apparatuses of Subjection: The Rehabilitation of Thought Criminals in the Early 1930s
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4. Nurturing the Ideological Avowal: Toward the Codification of Tenkō in 1936
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5. The Ideology of Conversion: Tenkō on the Eve of Total War
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Epilogue. The Legacies of the Thought Rehabilitation System in Postwar Japan
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook ISBN:
9781478092292
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312
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11 illustrations
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eBook ISBN:
9781478092292
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