From"Punishing the Qing Dynasty"to"Prosperity of East Asia"-The Policy and Logic of Tokutomi Sohou Toward China
Tokutomi Sohou was a great figure in the Japanese public opinion and press as well as a think-tank of the government's national policy during the Meiji and Showa periods.His ideology underwent a shift of focus from"populism-statism-royal-centrism-fascism",and his policy toward China shifted from"punishing the Ching Dynasty"to"Prosperity of East Asia".The surface logic of his imperialist discourse and behavior was based on the expediency of the ever-changing international situation and Japan's strength,The deep logic is the rendering and application of collective standardism under the idea of"loyalty to the monarch and patrio-tism"based on personal political ambitions and the crisis consciousness of the island nation.It is important to note that the Japanese political circles and right-wing ideology are closely related to this ideology,and an in-vestigation of Tokutomi Sohou's China policy will not only be beneficial to the study of Japan's invasion of China,but also provide new perspectives on the contemporary Japanese right-wing's view of China.
Tokutomi SohouChina PolicyPunishing the Qing DynastyJapan-China AllianceProsperity of East Asia
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