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Far Eastern Quarterly (1950) 9 (3): 365–369.
Published: 01 May 1950
...Hyman Kublin Kokutai no Hongi: cardinal principles of the national entity of Japan . Translated by John Owen Gauntlett and edited with an introduction by Robert King Hall . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1949 . viii , 200 pp. $4.00. Japan's economy in war...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (4): 771–782.
Published: 01 August 1980
... .” Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 † Roy Andrew Miller is Professor of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington. 1 Kokutai no Hongi ( Tokyo : Monbushō , 1937 ); Kokutai No Hongi, Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (3): 550–552.
Published: 01 May 1984
..., Oka's chief concern is twofold: to plot the arc of Konoe's rise and fall and to demonstrate that, by upbringing and conviction, Konoe was committed to a concept of kokutai (Japan's emperor-centered national polity) that moved him into politics at a time of crisis and sealed his fate. Oka begins...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 956–957.
Published: 01 November 2019
... is perhaps the Imperial Diet's most infamous piece of legislation. Drafted to curb communist and anti-colonial nationalist activism, it outlawed conspiracies to alter the “ kokutai ” (commonly translated as “national polity” or “essence”) and the system of private property. Progressive critics called...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1950) 9 (3): 362–365.
Published: 01 May 1950
... REVIEWS 365 Christianity is implanted in the hearts of the Japanese people, Japan will not become a real and well-founded democratic country" (p. 39). Columbia University HUGH BORTON Kokutai no Hongi: cardinal principles of the national entity of Japan. Translated by JOHN OWEN GAUNTLETT and edited...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (3): 548–550.
Published: 01 May 1984
... Studies 34, no. 2 [February 1975]: 473-84.) Oka Yoshitake approaches his task head-on. In his reconsideration of Konoe's life, Oka's chief concern is twofold: to plot the arc of Konoe's rise and fall and to demonstrate that, by upbringing and conviction, Konoe was committed to a concept of kokutai...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 467–494.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Attitudes Toward Modernization , ed. Marius B. Jansen , 7 – 41 . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press . Hall Robert King , ed. [1937] 1949 . Kokutai no hongi [Cardinal principles of the national entity of Japan]. Translated by John Owen Gauntlett . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1952) 11 (4): 499–503.
Published: 01 August 1952
... as a student at Waseda University. During the hectic months following the Russo-Japanese War he set to work on his first book, Kokutai ron oyobi junsei shakai shugi (The theory of national entity and pure socialism.) Tanaka's second chapter is restricted to a discussion of this book. Throughout the chapter...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (1): 229–230.
Published: 01 February 1998
..., the Japanese leaders had to persuade the skeptical members of the Diet to go along. In the background was the traditional bugaboo of Japanese political theory kokutai, or "national polity." The key issue became: Where was sovereignty (sbuken)? Diet members wanted to be assured that kokutai, i.e., the Emperor's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 365–379.
Published: 01 May 2022
... and Motofuji's conceptions of “body” challenged gender norms and presented new ideas about how to live. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2022 2022 body butoh dance history Japan kokutai nikutai Noh twentieth century Meanwhile, Motofuji and her fellow dancers tried...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (2): 287–316.
Published: 01 May 1992
...), Hasegawa Nyozekan, and Nanbara Shigeru (Barshay 1988) have illuminated how the influence of Western liberal philosophy nurtured and sustained the efforts of these actors to defy the authoritarian orthodoxy of the kokutai family conception of the state and articulate alternative visions of the Japanese...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (3): 475–480.
Published: 01 May 1984
... to the Japanese language. THE POSTWAR JAPANESE LANGUAGE 477 that the Japanese prefer silence to conversation. The idea has its origins, Miller contends (p. 92), in a false interpretation of the Man'ydshii2 by Sen'ichi Hisamatsu, principal author of the Kokutai no hongi, a nefarious work of the 1930s. Miller...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (2): 401–403.
Published: 01 February 1986
... and his school. In keeping with Irokawa's love of detail and an inductive approach, he does not fully lay out his theoretical critique until the final chapter. There he takes his adversaries to task for their interpretation of the ideological core of the prewar "emperor system," the mystical kokutai...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (2): 399–401.
Published: 01 February 1986
... not fully lay out his theoretical critique until the final chapter. There he takes his adversaries to task for their interpretation of the ideological core of the prewar "emperor system," the mystical kokutai (national polity). He agrees with Maruyama that the kokutai successfully assigned "unlimited...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 260–262.
Published: 01 February 2007
... ), and Slaymaker suggests that it also functioned as a counterideology to the prewar construct of the national body/polity ( kokutai ). According to Slaymaker, the carnal body figured prominently in postwar fiction and discourse as a consequence of three main factors: the physicality of everyday existence brought...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1950) 10 (1): 106–107.
Published: 01 November 1950
.... The pertinent passages from the official teachers' manuals accompany each part of the text. These textbook lessons may be regarded as a vehicle for indoctrinating the ideology of kodo or Japanese imperialism, so authoritatively expressed in the book Kokutai no Hongi published earlier in 1949 by Dr. Hall...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (3): 677–678.
Published: 01 August 1987
..., the same year that the Tokugawa bakufu issued its infamous "No Two Thoughts" expulsion edict, the New Theses popularized concepts such as kokutai (what is essential to the nation), jot (expulsion of barbarians), and sonno (honoring the emperor). As Bob Wakabayashi notes, "New Theses had a political...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 639–640.
Published: 01 August 1988
... by Kitagawa to reflect important dimensions of his scholarship. One could wish, of course, that other important studies had been included, such as "Ainu Bear Festival (Iyomante)" (History ofReligions 1 [1961]: 95-151) or "The Japanese Kokutai (National Community): History and Myth" (History ofReligions 13...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 4 (3): 291–293.
Published: 01 May 1945
..., with a three-fold emphasis on traditionalism, militarism and expansionism. Mr. Lamott gives an illuminating analysis of the movement to discover the essence of "the Nippon Spirit," to "clarify the National polity" (Kokutai), i.e. the principles upon which the Japanese believe their empire to have been founded...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 40 (1): 136–138.
Published: 01 November 1980
... in Japanese: kokutai (which means something like "national polity") used as a vague synonym for "the Japanese spirit," as in this desciption of an Ozu female character, "She has been unable to retain any of the old kokutai and, consequently, Ozu has no particular interest in her" (p. 36). There is also...