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Focuses on the work of Kuki Shuzo, a philosopher and the author of the classic "'Iki' no Kozo", to explore culture and theory in Japan during the interwar years. This title shows how Japanese intellectual culture ultimately became complicit, even instrumental, in a repressive and militaristic regime that ultimately brought the world to war.

Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/25/1996 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780520201347, 978-0520201347
      ISBN10: 0520201345

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      Book Synopsis
      Focuses on the work of Kuki Shuzo, a philosopher and the author of the classic "'Iki' no Kozo", to explore culture and theory in Japan during the interwar years. This title shows how Japanese intellectual culture ultimately became complicit, even instrumental, in a repressive and militaristic regime that ultimately brought the world to war.

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