Militaristic ideology espoused by Imperial Japan (1873–1945)
See also: Statism in Shōwa Japan
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Japanese militarism (日本軍国主義, Nihon gunkoku shugi) was the ideology in the Empire of Japan which advocated the belief that militarism should dominate the political and social life of the nation, and the belief that the strength of the military is equal to the strength of a nation.[1][2] It was most prominent from the start of conscription after the Meiji Restoration until the Japanese defeat in World War II, roughly 1873 to 1945. Since then, pacifism has been enshrined in the postwar Constitution of Japan as one of its key tenets.
^Piers Brendon, The dark valley: A panorama of the 1930s (Knopf, 2000) pp 438–64, 633–60.
^Shin'ichi Kitaoka, "The army as bureaucracy: Japanese militarism revisited." Journal of Military History 57.5 (1993): 67+.
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