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 Japanese nationalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Japanese nationalism, also known as Japanese imperialism or Japanese nationalist ideology is a generic title, referring to a complex series of patriotic and nationalist ideas held in Japan.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_imperialism   (4666 words)

  
 AAS Abstracts: Japan Session 147   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Lord Hailey's dictum that "Imperialism is not a word for scholars" notwithstanding, the study of empire is alive and well among specialists of European history.
From economic to strategic to social imperialism, from the notion of "informal empire" to the most recent debate surrounding "cultural imperialism," historians continue to probe the causes of European expansion and domination in the l9th and 20th centuries as central to the history of national development and international conflict that defines the modern age.
While rarely a party to this debate, Japanese historians have long sustained a discussion of their own on Japanese imperialism that has stressed the internally generated semi feudal and material origins of expansion.
www.aasianst.org /absts/1995abst/japan/jses147.htm   (1083 words)

  
 Courses - Japanese Section - Swarthmore College, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
This course aims to lead Japanese students into the intermediate-advanced level, deepening students' exposure to Japanese culture through the study of authentic materials and the application of language skills in diverse linguistic contexts.
As Japanese society has transferred rapidly in the 20th century and beyond, a number of authors have turned to the fantastic to explore the pathways of cultural memory, the vicissitudes of interpersonal relationships, the limits of mind and body, and the nature of storytelling itself.
Issues to be investigated include Japanese nationalism and imperialism; women’s experiences of the war and home front; changing representations and ideologies of the body; war writing and censorship; the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Japanese responses to the Occupation; and the war in postwar memory.
www.swarthmore.edu /Humanities/mll/japanese/academic/courses.html   (1072 words)

  
 On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism
Japanese imperialism could not have become so blatant in its aggression were it not for this pack of traitors.
The overthrow of Japanese imperialism and the counter-revolutionary forces in China cannot be accomplished in a day, and we must be prepared to devote a long time to it; it cannot be accomplished by small forces, and we must therefore accumulate great forces.
At the instigation of the Japanese, a puppet regime called the "Eastern Hopei Anti-Communist Autonomous Administration" was established in twenty-two counties in eastern Hopei by the Kuomintang traitor Yin Ju-keng on November 25, 1935.
marx2mao.phpwebhosting.com /Mao/TAJI35.html   (10324 words)

  
 Japan's March Toward Militarism
Japanese militarism and imperialism steadily developed for five principal reasons.
In the late 19th century, many Japanese leaders came to believe that their country had a "manifest destiny" to free other Asian countries from Western imperialist powers and to lead these countries to collective strength and prosperity.
This series of international affronts to Japanese pride and status provided fuel to the militaristic and imperialist sentiments of Japanese government leaders and ultranationalists.
wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /papers/jhist2.htm   (1437 words)

  
 Asia Times Online :: Korea News - Proliferation, imperialism - and the 'China threat'
Imperial Japan on September 27, 1940, in Berlin is known as the Axis Alliance based on the concept of a Rome-Berlin Axis put forth by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in 1936.
The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, which began with a Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur, a Russian enclave on China's Liaodong Peninsula, was the result of Japanese and Russian competition to develop "spheres of influence" in East Asia in the age of imperialism, mainly at the expense of China.
A new draft of the Japanese constitution provides for the formation of a full-fledged "Defense Army" of 60,000 troops; that number could be increased to 375,000 in times of war repelling foreign aggression, not just on Japanese soil but wherever interests claimed by Japan are located, with the authority to participate in collective defense alliances.
atimes.com /atimes/Korea/HI09Dg01.html   (9093 words)

  
 Japanese Imperialism - History Forum
On the contrary, Korean historians tend to denounce Japanese imperialism as plunder of land and oppressor of national industries.
During the WWII, the Japanese navy was one of the strongest in the world.
The Japanese expansion scheme, in couple with their modernization program, led them to conquer South-east Asia to gain the huge resources, after realising that conquering China isn't easy.
www.simaqianstudio.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=1618   (2338 words)

  
 Explanations of Japan’s Imperialistic Expansion, 1894-1910
Imperialism can be defined as direct or indirect domination of an industrialized country over a colonial territory or another country.
Although imperialism does not make sense as a business policy for a nation as a whole due to its enormous military and administrative expense, "strong organized industrial and financial interests" that stand to gain from imperialism find ways to put this expense on the general public (46, 106).
Essential features of imperialism include the concentration of production and capital into monopolies (large-scale firms), the merging of bank and industrial capital, the export of capital, the apportionment of the world among the large-scale firms, and the division of territories of the world among the great capitalist powers (89).
wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /papers/imperialism.htm   (3547 words)

  
 Japanese imperialism
Japanese expansion in Asia was undertaken in an age of active Western expansion into China.
With many similarities to the West, Japanese imperialism differed from Western imperialism in that it was the first non-Western imperial power, and that it rose to imperial status after facing colonization by the West.
Imperial expansion the last chance to win Western respect and ensure security and survival as a nation, and even bring civilization to other countries in Asia.
www.indiana.edu /~hisdcl/G369_2002/japanese_imperialism.htm   (795 words)

  
 Down With Japanese Provocations Against China, North Korea!
This position alibis the appetites of the Japanese bourgeoisie which is just as committed as its American counterpart to overturning the gains of the Chinese and North Korean social revolutions and brutally exploiting the workers and toilers of Asia.
With memories of the slaughter of tens of millions by Japan’s imperial army during the Pacific War still very much alive, it is only through its alliance with Washington that Japanese imperialism has been able to deploy its already highly advanced military overseas.
To augment the emergency war legislation which targets unions in the transport industry, these new guidelines call for the establishment of special anti-guerrilla units, intelligence gathering operations are to be strengthened, and cooperation among the military, the police and coast guard is to be heightened.
www.icl-fi.org /english/wv/842/japan.html   (2927 words)

  
 Japanese Imperialism/Colonialism in "Manchuria" Project, UCLA International Institute
Funded by the Nikkei Bruin Committee of the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies, the participants gathered to discuss varied imaginations of "Manchuria," or northeast China, in the ace of empire and afterward.
We, the participants of this workshop, believe that this collected volume is essential for scholars of imperialism and colonialism, who tend to concentrate on the European empire and simply neglect the Japanese experience.
For example, China insisted on the exploitative and oppressive qualities of the Manchukuo puppet state and the Japanese imperial regime, while Japan either ignored it or restated the Utopian justifications for the creation of the modem independent state of Manchukuo (McCormack 1991).
www.isop.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=2298   (1149 words)

  
 Resurgent Japanese Imperialism Sparks Protests in China
The Japanese textbook whitewash is a provocation not only against the Chinese deformed workers state, but workers throughout Asia, and, in fact, it has sparked protests in South Korea.
Japanese imperialism is determined to throw off the constraints of the "defeated nation" syndrome with which it emerged from World War II.
U.S. imperialism's rapprochement with the Maoist bureaucracy on the basis of shared hostility to the Soviet Union led to U.S. recognition of the People's Republic and a seat for China in the United Nations at the expense of Taiwan.
www.icl-fi.org /english/wv/archives/oldsite/2005/China-847.htm   (2586 words)

  
 ØAS 101 Forelesningnotat 2: Japanese Imperialism in Korea and Taiwan (comparison)
Taiwan, after heated resistance, becomes a Japanese colony (the first modern Japanese colony), and the question of dominance in Korea becomes the key issue in Japan’s political debates.
As China became new Japanese periphery, Korea and – less tightly – Taiwan are industrialized and given somewhat “semi-peripheral” status.
Japanese felt superiority was at bottom a matter of morality: purity.
www.geocities.com /uioeastasia2002/OASg2revised.htm   (1817 words)

  
 Opium Empire: Japanese Imperialism and Drug Trafficking in Asia, 1895-1945, The Pacific Affairs - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
He counters that Japanese imperialism -- specifically contact with Chinese opium smokers and poppy fields through the acquisition of Taiwan, Korea and later Manchuria - was the cause of, but not the motivation for,Japan's subsequent involvement with opium.
He also convincingly argues that Japanese narcotics policies are primarily concerned with the acquisition of revenue and the creation of economically self-sufficient colonies.
The same can be said for the concern expressed by Japanese authorities that the sudden prohibition of opium smoking in the colonies would be inhumane for Chinese or Korean addicts or lead to popular resentment and uprisings.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3680/is_199810/ai_n8816182   (450 words)

  
 Opium Empire: Japanese Imperialism and Drug Trafficking in Asia, 1895-1945, The Journal of Third World Studies - Find ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Beginning with the 1895 annexation of Taiwan and throughout the fifty years that followed, the Japanese rulers had to create drug policies for that island as well as Korea and their territories in China and Southeast Asia.
The Japanese were mindful of European demoralization of China as a result of the Opium War, ending in 1842.
In Korea, by the time that opium use was banned in 1914, morphine had replaced it as the drug of choice of addicts, and it was 1929 before the ruling Japanese initiated legislation to curb its use.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3821/is_200204/ai_n9038979   (854 words)

  
 PlanetPapers - Japanese Imperialism (and other countries) in the 1920s
Japanese Imperialism (and other countries) in the 1920s
Nationalism and imperialism were becoming important ideas in the East.
Nationalism and imperialism were prevalent ideas, and countries such as India hoped for independence.
www.planetpapers.com /Assets/5499.php   (1164 words)

  
 Why Asians fear U.S.-Japanese militarism
At the instigation and with the encouragement of its overlords in Washington, a revived Japanese imperialism has moved to shed its so-called “pacifist” camouflage and bared its teeth in brazen defiance of the peoples of the region it once conquered and enslaved.
The immediate event which touched off the wave of mass demonstrations was the approval by the Japanese government of revised textbooks which removed references to the wars of conquest and the atrocities committed by Japanese imperialism during the period of 1895 to 1945.
For the secretary of state of U.S. imperialism to go to Tokyo, the seat of Japanese imperialism, and brazenly bask in a new military alliance while lecturing the government of one-fifth of humanity on how to conduct its affairs is the height of imperialist arrogance.
www.workers.org /2005/world/china-0421   (1957 words)

  
 Imperialism
John Hobson on Imperialism, 1902 Here you can find an excerpt from the writings of John Hobson, a famous British economist, who argued that low wages for 19th century European workers guaranteed domestic under consumption of goods and justified imperial conquest in order to guarantee markets.
Theories of Imperialism Nice capsule summaries of conservative, liberal, Marxist, and social-psychological theories of imperialism.
Imperial Airways: An interesting, and imaginative look at how the Empire was held together by the Airline in the early 20th century.
www.casahistoria.net /imperialism.htm   (2673 words)

  
 The Abacus and the Sword
It is a thorough treatment of Japanese sources on the subject together with Korean collections of Japanese materials prepared by the scholar, Kim Chong-myong.
The strength of this work lies in its broad analysis of Japanese behaviour, examining the decisions of soldiers and statesmen at the top of the political hierarchy as well as the endeavours of struggling émigré farmers and shopkeepers.
While suggesting that Meiji imperialism shared much with the Western colonial expansion that provided both model and context, Duus also argues that it was "backward imperialism" shaped by a sense of inferiority vis-à-vis the West.
www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/6420.html   (1128 words)

  
 Japanese history
Foreingers were kept away from Japanese soil, with the exception of a score of Dutch and a few thousand Chinese merchants in a special district in the city of Nagasaki.
Although he enters the topic of Japanese imperialism, he does not mention the Nanjing massacre.
Although his critics say that he is not fluent in Japanese (a severe limitation, since understanding a culture largely depends on speaking its language), van Wolferen had 15 years of reporting experience in Japan when he wrote The Enigma of Japanese Power.
www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo1/japan.htm   (1025 words)

  
 The Difference Between European and Japanese Imperialism
Europe having the influence of the Roman Catholic Church, which made sure that everybody became a Christian, "grew up" differently than Japan whose influence came from their government, which was brutal, caring only for a quick rise in power.
The Japanese, seeing how powerful the west had become, decided that in order to become powerful themselves, they would have to learn as much about and adopt the western culture as much as possible.
Such cruelty was that of the Japanese Imperialism.
www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/essays/comp/cw30europejapanimperialism.htm   (1135 words)

  
 Japanese imperialism
While nationalism was very important to Fukuzawa from the very beginning, in the later years, it appeared more in the form of imperial expansion and chauvinism.
Russia's refusal to accept Japanese takeover of Liaodong Peninsula and consequent takeover of the peninsula, infuriating the Japanese.
He was a liberal, believing in individual independence, and it was this independence that won him status and fame--if he had bowed to offers to work in the government, he might never have ascended beyond a translator.
www.iun.edu /~hisdcl/G369_2002/Hopper7.htm   (945 words)

  
 [A-List] Japanese Imperialism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The boundary really isn't all that vague: we and our friends do "benevolent and correct expansionism", they and their friends do "irrational imperialism".
As it was bad for Germans to rid Germany of Jews but its fine for Israelis to rid Palestine of Palestinians.
And as it was okay for Japan to kidnap half a million Koreans because it had already invaded and conquered Korea, but it was terrible for North Korea to kidnap a dozen or so Japanese because North Korea had neither invaded nor conquered Japan.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2005-April/051902.html   (148 words)

  
 The Infography about Japanese Imperialism and Colonialism
The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is Japanese colonialism and imperialism.
Peter Duus, The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 (University of California Press, 1995).
William G. Beasley, Japanese Imperialism, 1894-1945 (Oxford University Press, 1987).
www.infography.com /content/304813603546.html   (161 words)

  
 Nanjing Massacre-Translator: Robert Gray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In 1962, scholars at Nanjing University's Department of History (Japanese history section) wrote the book Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing (riben diguozhuyi zai nanjing de datusha) based on extensive materials they uncovered during a two-year investigation into the Nanjing Massacre.
After it was written, the book was labelled a classified document (neibu ziliao) and could not be published openly.
All Japanese names are written with the surname first.
museums.cnd.org /njmassacre/njm-tran   (421 words)

  
 Teaching and Learning: Imperialism: European, American and Japanese: Imperialism: Expansion in the Age of Industry, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Teaching and Learning: Imperialism: European, American and Japanese: Imperialism: Expansion in the Age of Industry, 1865-1914 I
In your attempt to define imperialism, reflect on the political, economic, religious and other factors involved in the expansion of the industrial nations.
German political cartoon of 1890s indicating that German imperial order replaced African chaos.
www.historians.org /tl/LessonPlans/ca/Reins/QUESTION.HTM   (141 words)

  
 The Nature and Origins of Japanese Imperialism - Donald Calman - Microsoft Reader eBook
Donald Calman sets the events of the years around 1873 into a much wider context showing that the thread of aggressive, economically-inspired overseas expansion runs through Japanese history both early and later: from as early as the late Sixteenth Century, through the period of militarism and imperialism, right up to the present.
A further important argument put forward is that much writing about Japan, from home and from abroad, has played down the true extent and true nature of Japanese imperialism.
The Nature and Origins of Japanese Imperialism eBooks - All Formats
www.ebookmall.com /ebook/81992-ebook.htm   (881 words)

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