title: Premodern Ideas “kokutai” as Essential Elements of Modernization in Japanese Historical Process
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metadata.value: Kimura, Takashi
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metadata.value: 2020-01-24T10:40:29Z
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metadata.value: 2020-01-24T10:40:29Z
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metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.value: Kimura Takashi. Premodern Ideas “kokutai” as Essential Elements of Modernization in Japanese Historical Process. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2019, vol. 11, issue 4, pp. 463–479.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2019.404
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16956
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metadata.value: Modernization in historically later developed countries is an amalgamated process, where
  all its elements must be analyzed both as a whole picture and as variety of its components.
  Early Japanese Marxists thinkers, scrutinizing political systems that emerged after the Meiji
  revolution, found traces of so-called “feudal remnants” in the public consciousness of people.
  These “remnants” still make modern researchers to question the role of the elements
  in Japanese modernization. Modernized state should be not only sovereign, but also be
  a nation state “kokumin kokka”, therefore it is worthwhile to look upon the prehistory of
  the creation of the first Japanese constitution “Dainipponn teikoku kenpoo” (1889), which
  reflected the national ideas “kokutai”. It is also necessary to analyze a number of socio-political
  reasons that entailed the issuance of an imperial decree addressed to the soldiers “gunjin
  chokuyu” (1882) and the imperial speech on public education “kyouiku chokugo” (1890).
  These documents along with the constitution contained the ideas of “kokutai”, which represented
  the element of the feudal world. Under the right conditions, a nation is born and
  develops on its own, but when the historical prerequisites and conditions do not form, it is
  necessary to create them artificially. At the end of the 19th century Japan faced the similar
  situation. In 1925, the Chian iji-ho Law of Public Peace Preservation was published, in its
  first article the word kokutai could be found, however it does not contain a definition of this
  term. In 1932 and in 1936, military putsches occurred, it should be noted that participants
  of these accidents were ardent supporters of the “kokutai” ideas. On August 14, 1945, the
  Japanese government conveyed the intention to adopt the Potsdam Declaration under one
  condition, namely the preservation of the “kokutai”, thereby they extended the existence of
  the kokutai ideas until the surrender of Japanese empire.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 11; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: kokutai ideas
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: modernization in Japan
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nation-state
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: inner politics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: constitution
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Premodern Ideas “kokutai” as Essential Elements of Modernization in Japanese Historical Process
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metadata.value: Article
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