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Book Announcement: Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan

Posted on October 23, 2022 by Paula

Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan Garrett L. Washington Christians have never even constituted one percent of Japan’s population, yet Christianity had a disproportionately large influence on Japan’s social, intellectual, and political development. This happened despite the Tokugawa … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Shinto Studies in Prewar Japan and the West

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Paula

Bernhard Scheid, ed., with Kate Wildman Nakai Kami Ways in Nationalist Territory: Shinto Studies in Prewar Japan and the West. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2013. Publisher’s blurb: Shinto, literally the way of the kami (gods), is often regarded as Japan’s indigenous religion … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Public Opinion – Propaganda – Ideology

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Paula

Public Opinion – Propaganda – Ideology: Theories on the Press and its Social Function in Interwar Japan, 1918-1937 As early as prewar Japan, thinkers of various intellectual proveniences had begun discussing the most important topics of contemporary media and communication … Continue reading →

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