From constitutional monarchy to absolutist theory
Hozumi Yatsuka : the religious völkish family-state
Minobe Tatsukichi : the secularization of politics
Kita Ikki: a social-democratic critique of absolute monarchy
The rise of mass nationalism
Uesugi Shinkichi : the emperor and the masses
Kakehi Katsuhiko : the Japanese emperor state at the center of the Shintō cosmology
Radical Shintō ultranationalism and its triumph in the early Shōwa period
Terrorism in the land of the gods
Orthodoxation of a holy war.