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Ultra-nationalism played an important role in the process of militarizing Japanese society during the 1930s, but although the logical and emotional aspects of ultra-nationalism in Japan have been anal...yzed, there has been little study on its ethical aspects. The ethical concepts that the writer Yukio Mishima held as an ultra-nationalist have been shown to have a structure similar to the ethical structure of the Albanian tribal customary code called the Kanun. The similarity between Mishima’s logic and the Kanun suggests that Japanese ultra-nationalism has an ethical structure similar to that of the Kanun. The present study analyzes the logic and ethical value system of ultra-nationalism in prewar Japan. It was found that ultra-nationalism subsumed the logic of a society without state power into the logic of the Japanese nation-state. Ultra-nationalism in prewar Japan had a paradoxical logic, which sought both worldwide hegemony of the Japanese and the destruction of Japan itself.show more
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