Japan's Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shintō Ultranationalism
In Japan, as in Germany and Italy, there was a palpable decline in what might be called the “national moral ethos” in the 1930s and 1940s, most evident in the rise of “politics by assassination” and in the gross mistreatment of civilian populations and prisoners of war by the Japanese military (so m...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2009, Volume: 51, Issue: 3, Pages: 526-528 |
| Review of: | Japan's holy war (Durham [u.a.] : Duke Univ. Press, 2009) (Starrs, Roy)
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| Summary: | In Japan, as in Germany and Italy, there was a palpable decline in what might be called the “national moral ethos” in the 1930s and 1940s, most evident in the rise of “politics by assassination” and in the gross mistreatment of civilian populations and prisoners of war by the Japanese military (so much in contrast to their earlier, more “gentlemanly” behavior in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904–1905). A whole new level of ruthlessness was in the air, a nihilistic cult of violence and death. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csp089 |