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.

Evaluation, Japanese history

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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.

Politicians, Portrayals, Criticism and interpretation, Authorship, Regionalism, Japanese literature, Treatise on Greater Asianism (Book), Kenkichi, Kodera

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