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Cover of Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period

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Shinto and Japanese Religion

Japan's Modern Myths

Ideology in the Late Meiji Period

by Carol Gluck

A classic history of how the ideology of emperor, state and family was formed and spread in Japan between about 1890 and 1912. Gluck examines the Imperial Rescript on Education, schools, the press and local elites.

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