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Shinto and Japanese Religion

Kokutai no Hongi

Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan

by John Owen Gauntlett (trans.) and Robert King Hall (ed.) · John Owen Gauntlett (trans.), Robert King Hall (ed.)

An English translation of the 1937 Ministry of Education tract that set out the official ideology of the divine emperor and the family-state. Hall's introduction places it in the context of wartime education and the Occupation.

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