Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period

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Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later identified these efforts as one of the underlying pathologies of World War II. Available for the first time in paperback,

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"The narration and analysis of every page of the work reflect the author's brimming talent and make for extremely interesting reading... This book ... will become a lasting milestone in the study of the intellectual history of modern Japan."--Japan Quarterly