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Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan
Japan was founded in 660 BCE by a great-grandson of Amaterasu, Emperor Jinmu.
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Rather, it was extremely difficult to conceive of a modern yet non-Western science. Not
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Konoe cabinet (the first Konoe cabinet, June 1937–January 1939)
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To him, to be scientific meant to experience and appreciate the wonder of nature.
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Thus, they argued, Japan’s bloc of Greater East Asia—Japan, Manchuria, and China (soon to be called the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere [Daitōa kyōeiken],
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founding members of Yuibutsuron Kenkyūkai, or the Study Group of Materialism (hereafter Yuiken, as the group was called).
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Suzuki Umetarō (1874–1943),
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It was a complicated process. Recollecting his own and other intellectuals’ experiences during wartime, prominent historian Takeuchi Yoshimi wrote that “[s]ubjectively speaking, it would make more sense to most intellectuals to say that, while continuing to reject and hate the mythology, we became incorporated into the mythology in a doubly and tri
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As the next section demonstrates, the war with China brought the much-needed momentum to the technocratic movement.
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