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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Japanese militarism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The ideals of the Japanese family-state and self-sacrifice in service of the nation were given a missionary interpretation and were thought by their ultranationalist proponents to be applicable to the modern world.
Japanese forces attacked Shanghai in January 1932 on the pretext of Chinese resistance in Manchuria.
The Japanese were severely defeated, sustaining as many as 80,000 casualties, and thereafter Japan concentrated its war efforts on its southward drive in China and Southeast Asia, a strategy that helped propel Japan ever closer to war with the United States and Britain and their allies.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Japanese_militarism   (2014 words)

  
 Japanese nationalism - tScholars.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Showa Emperor (Emperor Hirohito, during his lifetime) was considered the symbol of Japanese nationalist ideology, the center of State Shintoism, Chief of the Imperial Government, and object of the National Emperor-worship cult.
Japanese citizens were rallied to the "Defensive State" or "Consensus State", in which all efforts of the nation supported collective objectives, by guidance from national myths, history and dogmas, obtaining a "national consensus".
After the Japanese surrender in August 1945, the whole structure was dismantled by the Allied occupation authorities in the whole Japanese Empire and Japanese-held territories.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Japanese_nationalism   (4822 words)

  
 Articles - Nationalist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Nationalists define individual nations on the basis of certain criteria, which distinguish one nation from another; and also determine "who is a member of each nation".
Nationalists recognise that ´non-national´ states exist; indeed, the struggles of early nationalist movements were often directed against empires, such as Austria-Hungary.
Nationalist movements may or may not claim that their nation is better than others.
www.worldhammock.com /articles/Nationalist   (6709 words)

  
 Japanese Economy
When all evidence is considered, Tabb’s views on the Japanese economy seem particularly flawed, partially because of bias, partially because of a lack of research.
Tabb shows that lessons of the Japanese experience was that their model is the new standard.
Japanese production and labor seems flexible to all who comment on it, yet Tabb traces this to labor exploitation, which seems weakened in empirical observation.
www.msu.edu /user/kunzfran/nippon.htm   (2925 words)

  
 Japanese Economy
When all evidence is considered, Tabb’s views on the Japanese economy seem particularly flawed, however, partially because of bias, partially because of a lack of research.
Japanese production and labor seems flexible to all who comment on it, yet Tabb traces this to labor exploitation; exploitation which seems nonexistent in empirical observation.
Financial regulation seems to be the weak link in the Japanese economy, yet Tabb does not effectively consider this in his views on the developmetalist state.
www.msu.edu /~kunzfran/nippon2.htm   (2977 words)

  
 Indonesia - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Indonesia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The 1945 constitution (amended 1950 and 1969) is based on a state ideology, the Pancacila (Five Principles), of monotheism, humanitarianism, Indonesian unity, representative democracy by consensus, and social justice.
The Indonesian Nationalist Party (PNI), led by Achmed Sukarno, was founded in 1927, but was brutally suppressed by the Dutch and its leaders exiled.
Suharto appointed a new cabinet in March 1998, which was dominated by a combination of economic nationalists and cronies, including his daughter as welfare minister, and his golfing partner as trade and industry minister.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Indonesia   (6323 words)

  
 The history of nationalist ideology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The goal of the conference is to highlight the Japanese government's steadfast denial of its aggression and atrocities in the fourteen Asian countries it invaded and occupied during the Pacific War (1931-1945) and its continuing refusal to apologize and compensate for its crimes against humanity.
The approval of a controversial Japanese history textbook in April has prompted a wave of criticism from neighboring countries concerned about its accuracy and tone.
In Japan the anthem is the Kimigayo (His Majesty's Reign), the same dirge that rang in the ears of millions of Imperial troops who went off to kill in the name of the Emperor in Asia during World War II.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/55a/index-dbe.html   (296 words)

  
 Kamikaze Images - Japanese Views
Japanese museums with kamikaze exhibits show photos of each pilot, and they display their personal letters.
Although very few kamikaze pilots were married and even fewer had children, the first entry in Yasukuni Jinja's seven-volume series of soldiers' writings is a poignant letter written by a father to his young daughter prior to departure on a kamikaze attack.
She states in a note that a Japanese author of books on kamikaze warned her that these numbers are only approximations.
wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /kamikaze/japanese   (3016 words)

  
 JAPAN'S DARK BACKGROUND 1881-1945
The Japanese took many of the concessions forced upon them from 1895-1904, while laying plans to eliminate Russia as a threat to her territorial desires in the region.
China's main response to the Japanese aggression was to institute a boycott of Japanese goods, with Shanghai serving as the main center for the action.
No, Japanese investigators will be small cells of incredibly desperate individuals, clustered together with those they could absolutely trust, fighting to save humanity while maintaining their outward dedication to the system.
www.fortunecity.com /tattooine/leiber/50/bds1.htm   (13276 words)

  
 The American Nationalist: FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Nationalists support the rights of the Israeli nation as they do every other nation's, and also those of Croatia, Bosnia, and the Kosovar Albanians; racists hate the Jews and love the Serbs (presumably because Serbia is the nearest contemporary equivalent to Nazi Germany).
Many nationalists have argued that the nation, as a community, must be directly responsible for the material welfare of its members.
Many nationalists have also argued that national independence must be secured in economics as well as politics, through high tariffs that protect domestic industry from foreign competition, and even the pursuit of complete autarky.
home.earthlink.net /~karljahn/faq.htm   (6211 words)

  
 Discourse, Knowledge and Ideology. Reformulating old questions.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
For instance, a racist ideology could be the basis of the attitudes people share about immigration, integration or foreigners on the labor market.
Such ideologies are not arbitrary collections of social beliefs, but specific group schemata, organized by a number of categories that represent the identity, the social structure and position of the group, such as ‘our’ appearance, activities, aims, norms, group relations and resources.
And it is this definition of the situation that is rooted in a nationalist ideology.
www.discourse-in-society.org /LAUD2002.htm   (8246 words)

  
 Nationalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Globalization is violently opposed street demonstrations (see ATTAC) nationalistic parties continue to do well elections and the most people continue to a strong sense of attachment to their Moreover it is not necessarily the case globalism and European federalism are necessarily opposed nationalism.
For example although most Irish nationalist of the last 100 years are Catholic the 19th century and especially in the 18th century many nationalistic leaders were Protestant.
Irish nationalists are not fighting for theological distinctions like transubstantiation the status of Virgin Mary or the primacy of the Rather they are fighting for an ideology identifies the geographical island of Ireland with a particular view of Irish which for some nationalists does include Catholicism has as a more dominant element other of culture.
www.freeglossary.com /Nationalism   (2470 words)

  
 Ideology
Tonghak ideology thus fostered a nationalistic faith that culminated in the Tonghak Rebellion - a defining event in Korea's modernization.
The central objective of the nationalist movement was not so much a rejection of Westernization, but the advancement of national identity.
Thus, theories of ancient Korean history as exposed by nationalist historians became the philosophical foundation of the indigenous religious movements of the early twentieth century.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/dprk/ideology.htm   (1958 words)

  
 Mao Zedong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In early 1927, he was dispatched to Hunan province to report on the recent peasant uprisings in the wake of the Northern Expedition.
After the Japanese were defeated in World War II, the Communists defeated the Kuomintang in an ensuing civil war and established the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949.
It was the tension between Khrushchev (at the head of a politically/militarily superior government), and Mao (with his superior understanding of Marxist ideology) that eroded the previous patron-client relationship between the USSR and CCP.
mao-zedong.iqnaut.net   (3694 words)

  
 Japanese leader's wartime nostalgia provokes wrath [Free Republic]
YOSHIRO MORI, the Japanese Prime Minister, was fighting for his political future yesterday after a series of gaffes prompted even diehard conservatives to question his fitness to lead the nation.
The word comes from a quotation by the then emperor, "This is the glory of the fundamental character of our Empire." The Imperial Japanese believed they were a race apart from other Asians and had a manifest destiny (like the US in the 19th century Americas) to control Asia.
The Japanese remain almost totally unreconstructed about the wars they started and the atrocities they commited during the first half of the twentieth century.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a393d07ee720b.htm   (654 words)

  
 Nationalist Hindi Cinema
There is, for instance, the disruptive emergence of a nationalist discourse by way of a theatrically staged family scene from which the father is missing and in which, as the viewer soon learns, the children are not part of the same nuclear family.
The nationalist demonstration and the nationalist play posit the truth of things in the colonial public spheres, while the family tableau presents nationalism as a discourse pertaining to the domestic sphere.
The alternative within colonial and nationalist (and scholarly) discourses that rests on a binary opposition between Indian and “Western” cultures is to mobilise a frontal address.
www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca /vita042.htm   (6145 words)

  
 Japanese History, Culture, & Education
Education in medieval Japan (1185-1600) is examined through both the impact of Buddhism as a religious and educational force, and the development of samurai domination of both the polity and the pedagogic realm as well.
The role of Western theory, practice, and institutions in Meiji (1868-1912) education is the central theme of the fourth section of the course, while the fifth examines the function of “nationalist ideology” in pre-war, 20th century developments in education.
As always, by means of the study of other cultures students are expected to develop a greater awareness of who they are, and the extent to which their own culture shares or can share perspectives with those often considered to be wholly different.
core.ecu.edu /hist/tuckerjo/kyoiku.htm   (1225 words)

  
 Slashdoc - The Emperor and Nationalist Ideology in Meiji Era Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Central to this ideology was the emperor who was effectively and successfully used as a tool for legitimizing the Meiji government.
According to myth, the Japanese emperor is a direct descendent of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu.
A prime example of the government’s efforts to indoctrinate the public with nationalistic ideology is Imperial Rescript on Education issued in 1890.
www.slashdoc.com /documents/94867   (1914 words)

  
 Modern China: Nationalist China
Instead, the Nationalist government solely concerned itself with maintaining order in a country that was flying apart at the seams.
In addition ot contending with dissident politicians in the KMT, the Nationalists also had to deal with rebellions by the "new warlords." In the south, the Communist party began to threaten KMT authority, while the Japanese, in an aggressive new policy, began to threaten Manchuria, Beijing, and northern China.
   While Japanese aggression eventually dismantled the Nationalist state, the greatest long-term threat to the KMT came from the Chinese Communist Party, which had slowly been building in China, was temporarily allied with the KMT, but throughout the 1930's became increasingly independent.
www.wsu.edu:8001 /~dee/MODCHINA/NATIONAL.HTM   (1283 words)

  
 Japanese philosophy : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
The implication for Motoori was that the ancient Japanese language of the text is not only the language of the deities, but also the most pure intimation of the heart of things.
If the ancient Japanese language was the protolanguage of all languages, if that language were most purely resonant with the heart of things and if the Japanese emperor was the special link between the deities and humanity, obviously Japan would have a special place in the world.
For the first time, Shintō became a major intellectual force in Japanese thought and there was an attendant sense of the uniqueness and superior quality of Japanese culture.
www.rep.routledge.com /article/G100SECT7   (986 words)

  
 Stygius: Ideology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
For Geras, such a monocular vision is reductionist; wherein the complexity of world events, and the multiplicity of motivations and ideologies behind human action are innapropriately reduced to simple terms or simple causes.
Its global impact makes for grievances, and these grievances are transmuted into regressive ideologies and movements that, even if this section of the left does not unambiguously support them, it contrives to "understand" in a more or less indulgent way.
The German, Italian, and Japanese States hardly saw themselves bound by Westphalian notions of territorial legitimacy.
stygius.typepad.com /stygius/ideology   (11498 words)

  
 American Memorial Park - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Casualties among the civilian population of the island were extremely high due to Japanese nationalist ideology making it meritorious to die for the sake of the Emperor who was worshiped as a living god at that time.
This strategic advantage laid the groundwork for the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and the eventual surrender of Japan.
Today, 60 years later, historic relics and artifacts from the Japanese occupation and the war include piles of ammunition, aircraft rotting in the jungle, bunkers, tanks, pillboxes, and sunken ships which litter Saipan’s landscape and offshore lagoon.
www.nps.gov /amme/pphtml/newsdetail18806.html   (826 words)

  
 Bulletin of Portuguese-Japanese Studies volume 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A discussion of the latter problem invokes the argument, current among Japanese historians, that pollution taboos functioned as an ideological apparatus in which ritual purity was an index of social hierarchy.
Aboard one of the ships was Peter Mundy, who, during his stay in the city, described its Chinese and Japanese inhabitants’ way of life and their influence in the culture of the enclave, as well as Macao’s trade relations with Japan.
In this article, we analyse the Japanese presence in Mundy’s Journal, as well as the beginning of the Anglo-Portuguese relations in China, which were influenced by the Portuguese merchants’ interest in the trade with the Islands of the Rising Sun.
www.cham.fcsh.unl.pt /engl/bulletin1_e.htm   (1496 words)

  
 China’s Nationalist... :: Dissent Winter 2006 Issue
The nationalist narrative recited above was also intended to trace anti-Chinese policies back to Japan’s 1870s incursion into Taiwan, legitimating China’s annexation of that small democratic country as another step in the CCP’s anti-imperialist struggle, thereby ending an age of humiliation.
With Japanese portrayed as “beasts” and Americans as “devils,” a benign CCP is leading the Chinese race, descendants of the Yellow Emperor, to resume its rightful place in the world order.
Responding to a nationalist rage it has itself spawned, the CCP is trying to control and co-opt the new nationalism.
www.dissentmagazine.org /article?article=174   (1572 words)

  
 Space Coast Web Journal
The Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, did not accompany Bush into the shrine, declining to worship because of the political repurcussions.
The Yasukuni jinja is the center of an ultra-nationalist Japanese ideology that made gods of those who were responsible for the merciless and inhumane slaughter of millions of people and atrocities beyond counting.
The symbolism of the American President bowing at Yasukuni, (in a land where value judgments are based on gaining or losing face), is vile submission to an ideology of Japanese ethnic and cultural superiority and ultra-nationalism.
www.spacecoastweb.org /blog/2004.12.05_arch.html   (1356 words)

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