The Ideology of Kokugo: Nationalizing Language in Modern Japan

Contents\nTranslator’s Introduction\nAcknowledgments\nPrologue: Language and the Imagined Community\nIntroduction: The Japanese Language before Kokugo: Views of Mori Arinori and Baba Tatsui\nPART I: Kokugo Issues in Early Meiji\nChapter 1. Perspectives on Kokuji, the National Script\nChapter 2. Genbun Itchi and Kokugo\nChapter 3. The Creation of Kokugo\nPart II: Ueda Kazutoshi and His Ideas about Language\nChapter 4. The Early Period of Ueda Kazutoshi\nChapter 5. Kokugo and Kokka\nChapter 6. From Kokugo Studies to Kokugo Politics\nPart III: Kokugogaku and Linguistics\nChapter 7. Hoshina Kōichi—a Forgotten Scholar\nChapter 8. The History of Kokugogaku\nChapter 9. Tradition and Reform in Kokugo\nPart IV: Hoshina Ko-ichi and His Language Policies\nChapter 10. The Ideology of Hyōjungo\nChapter 11. Korea and Poland\nChapter 12. What Is Assimilation?\nChapter 13. Manchukuo and the State Language\nChapter 14. Language for the Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Internationalization of the Japanese Language\nChapter 15. Conclusion\nChronology\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex\nAbout the Author and Translator