A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 5 Japan)

CONTENTS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 10
CHAPTER ONE REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE AS A NATION......Page 14
Contemporary Nationalism Theory: What is Nationalism and Who are the Nation?......Page 18
Theoretical Influences on Japanese Discourse on the Nation......Page 24
Contemporary Japanese Theories on Nationalism......Page 38
CHAPTER TWO THE PRECONDITIONS OF JAPANESE NATIONALISM......Page 49
The Bakumatsu Years and the Preconditions of National Identity......Page 50
Creating a Public and Building a State in Early Meiji......Page 58
I. Mitsukuri Rinsh  and the Legal Theory of "Minken"......Page 78
II. Miyazaki Mury  and the Concept of "Minzoku"......Page 84
III. Mitsukuri, Miyazaki and Japanese Nationalist Discourse......Page 93
CHAPTER THREE TENNŌ......Page 96
The Monarch as Liberator of the Japanese People......Page 97
Monarchy and the Moral Nation......Page 105
The Monarch as Emperor (Kōtei)......Page 115
The Tennō as Symbol of the Nation......Page 126
CHAPTER FOUR HAKAI......Page 140
Coming to Terms with Society in Meiji Japan......Page 142
Constructing Society, Conceiving of Shakai......Page 148
Society as a Problem......Page 156
Taisho Sociology and the Problem of the "People"......Page 162
Postwar Japan and Shakai......Page 167
CHAPTER FIVE KOKUMIN......Page 177
Civilization and Nationalism, 1868-1890......Page 182
I. Meiji Kokumin Aesthetics......Page 190
II. Meiji Kokumin Theology......Page 197
III. Meiji Kokumin Political Theory......Page 204
From Political to Cultural Nationalism, 1890-1945......Page 207
The Postwar Return of the Kokumin, 1945 to the Present......Page 216
CHAPTER SIX MINZOKU......Page 229
Minzoku and Empire......Page 232
Minzoku and Liberal Political Theory......Page 239
Minzoku and War......Page 249
Minzoku and the Postwar Nation......Page 263
CHAPTER SEVEN AFTERWORD: THE PLACE OF THE NATION IN JAPAN TODAY......Page 278
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 288
INDEX......Page 298