Nippon Kaigi: political nationalism in contemporary Japan

In: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies

Abstract

A brief history of political nationalism (1945-2000) -- Nippon Kaigi : the most important nationalist pressure group in contemporary Japan -- Nippon Kaigi : a case representative of the unity and coherence of the ideological corpus of the Japanese nationalist circles -- Political lobbying by Nippon Kaigi : between fantasy and reality -- Religion and nationalism : the place of religious organisations within Nippon Kaigi -- Japanese political nationalism : an inventory of fixtures.