The Peasant Soul of Japan

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Tokyo Summit of 1979: An event which sheds light on the nature of the Japanese....Pages 3-12
The Peasant Spirit in War: The Agrarian and Equestrian Mentalities....Pages 13-24
The Japanese Feeling of Security: Ancestral Roots. The Soil....Pages 25-32
The Japanese Feeling of Security: Leadership and Security....Pages 33-39
The spirit of harmony as the cause of conflict....Pages 40-57
Societies in which orders are effective; Societies in which they are not....Pages 58-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
The Mechanism of the Envy Society....Pages 71-83
‘Law’ and ‘Order’ in an Agrarian Society....Pages 84-99
The Politics of Envy....Pages 100-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
The Emperor as the Chief High Priest of Agrarian Ceremonies....Pages 115-124
The Civil War Period and the Foresight of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the First of the Tokugawa Shōguns....Pages 125-143
The Meaning of the Meiji Restoration and the History of the Showa Period....Pages 144-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
The Spirit of Commerce and its Effect on the Japanese....Pages 155-173
The World Turns Towards an Agrarian Ideology....Pages 174-181
Conclusion....Pages 182-184
Back Matter....Pages 185-197