Nationalist Thought in Prewar Japan

Atsushi Tsuneki

ISER Discussion Paper from Institute of Social and Economic Research, The University of Osaka

Abstract: This study clarifies the nature and political effect of nationalist political thought in prewar Japan (1800-1941). A common belief that Japanese nationalism is of a particular nature unique to Japan, and that it is anti-liberal-democratic, feudal, hierarchical, and militaristic is denied. My study instead argues that Japanese nationalism was highly modern in the flexible way it maintained substantial influence throughout the Meiji-to-1945 period, whether the ruling power and order were more liberal-democratic or more totalitarian-militaristic at a given time.

Date: 2019-01
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