Nationalist extremism in early Showa Japan: Inoue Nissho and the 'Blood Pledge Corps Incident', 1932
Article Abstract:
This article examines the 1932 assassination of Japan's former Finance Minister Inoue Junnosuke and the Director-General of Mitsui Dan Takuma organized by Inoue Nissho. The author, examining the nationalistic motives of Inoue Nissho, maintains he was acquitted of organizing the terrorist act which was a remarkable event denoting that terrorism in the name of nationalism was acceptable in pre-war Japan.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 2001
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Achieving reversion: protest and authority in Okinawa, 1952-70
Article Abstract:
The Okinawan reversion movement should occupy a central place in accounts of the 'Okinawa problem' as it highlighted the contradictions of US military occupation and forced concessions that increasingly undermined American rule. A survey of opposition to US occupation in Okinawa has challenged the assumptions of OkinawaEs obedience and political immaturity.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 2003
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic: