Nationalisms in Japan

Naoko Shimazu lectures on modern Japanese history at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of Japan, Race and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919 (Routledge, 1998).

• Introduction 1. Japanese National Doctrines in International Perspective 2. Reading the Diaries of Japanese Conscripts: Forging National Consciousness during the Russo-Japanese War 3. Internationalism and Nationalism: Anti-Western Sentiments of Japanese Foreign Policy Debates, 1918-1922 4. Japanese Nationalist Extremism 1921-1941 in Historical Perspective 5. The Making of Ainu Moshiri: Japan’s Indigenous Nationalism and its Cultural Fictions 6. The Battle for Hearts and Minds: Patriotic Education in Japan in the 1990s and Beyond 7. The National Politics of Yasukuni Shrine. Conclusions: Towards Nationalisms in Japan

'This volume makes an important contribution in its emphasis on illuminating the complexities of Japanese nationalism and its commonalities with other states' 'national thinking'...All the chapters are extremely accessible and superbly written. Their rich empirical contents would be of interest to a very wide range of scholars.' - Shogo Suzuki, East Asia: An International Quarterly, Volume 24'[E]ach one of the the individual investigations conducted by the contributing authors exhibits solid scholarship, and the editor, Naoko Shimazu, deserves special praise for ensuring consistent quality over such a wide range of themes and, by bringing these essays together, for successfully highlighting the pluralistic (and perhaps even conflicting) nature of nationalisms in Japan.' - Koichi Nakano, Monumenta Nipponica, 62:4