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Thought Crime : Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan /

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In Thought Crime Max M. Ward explores the Japanese state's efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Ward traces the evolution of an antiradical law called the Peace Preservation Law, from its initial application to suppress communism and anticolonial nationalism--what au...

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Main Author: Ward, Max M., 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Politics and government.
Political crimes and offenses.
Lese majesty > Law and legislation.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
Crimes et delits politiques > Japon > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Political crimes and offenses > Japan > History > 20th century.
Lese majesty > Law and legislation > Japan > History > 20th century.
Japan.
Japon > Histoire > 1912-1945.
Japon > Politique et gouvernement > 1912-1945.
Japon > Politique et gouvernement > 1926-1945.
Japan > History > 1912-1945.
Japan > Politics and government > 1912-1945.
Japan > Politics and government > 1926-1945.
History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the ghost in the machine: emperor system ideology and the peace preservation law apparatus
  • Kokutai and the aporias of imperial sovereignty : the passage of the Peace Preservation Law in 1925
  • Transcriptions of power : repression and rehabilitation in the early Peace Preservation Law apparatus, 1925-1933
  • Apparatuses of subjection : the rehabilitation of thought criminals in the early 1930s
  • Nurturing the ideological avowal : toward the codification of tenkō in 1936
  • The ideology of conversion : tenkō on the eve of total war
  • Epilogue: the legacies of the thought rehabilitation system in postwar Japan.

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