Japan's Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism

by Walter Skya

Book Overview

Japan's Holy War reveals how a radical religious ideology drove the Japanese to imperial expansion and global war. Bringing to light a wealth of new information, Walter A. Skya demonstrates that whatever other motives the Japanese had for waging war in Asia and the Pacific, for many the war was the fulfillment of a religious mandate. In the early twentieth century, a fervent nationalism developed within State Shintō. This ultranationalism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822344238
• ISBN13: 9780822344230
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"