Mental health as public peace: Kaneko Junji and promotion of psychiatry in modern Japan
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The National Diet passed legislation that could compel defendants, even those found innocent, to enter or regularly visit a mental hospital if judges and psychiatrists deemed them mentally ill and possessing a propensity to commit crimes. Kaneko Junji, a prominent spokesman for the profession through his involvement with its important institutions, associations and movements and through his efforts to influence laws pertaining to the disordered is discussed.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 2004
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The construction of regionalism in modern Japan: Kodera Kenkichi and his "Treatise on Greater Asianism" (1916)
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The article examines the writings of politician Kodera Kenkichi (1877-1949) and finds his work "Treatise on Greater Asianism" as very vital for establishing the ideology of Asianism in modern Japan.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 2007
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