03269oam 2200577I 450 99659957250331620190124022901.01-4780-9229-71-4780-0274-310.1515/9781478002741(CKB)4100000007650274(MiAaPQ)EBC56835311083267769(BiblioVault)org.bibliovault.9781478002741(OCoLC)1125768398(MdBmJHUP)muse81058(DE-B1597)554494(DE-B1597)9781478002741(OCoLC)1144378889(EXLCZ)99410000000765027420190124d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThought crime ideology and state power in interwar Japan /Max M. WardDurham :Duke University Press,2019.1 online resource (313 pages)Asia Pacific1-4780-0165-8 1-4780-0131-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Kokutai and the aporias of imperial sovereignty : the passage of the Peace Preservation Law in 1925 -- Transcriptions of power : repression and rehabilitation in the early Peace Preservation Law apparatus, 1925-1933 -- Apparatuses of subjection : the rehabilitation of thought criminals in the early 1930s -- Nurturing the ideological avowal : toward the codification of tenkō in 1936 -- The ideology of conversion : tenkō on the eve of total war.In Thought Crime Max M. Ward explores the Japanese state's efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Ward traces the evolution of an antiradical law called the Peace Preservation Law, from its initial application to suppress communism and anticolonial nationalism—what authorities deemed thought crime—to its expansion into an elaborate system to reform and ideologically convert thousands of thought criminals throughout the Japanese Empire. To enforce the law, the government enlisted a number of nonstate actors, who included monks, family members, and community leaders. Throughout, Ward illuminates the complex processes through which the law articulated imperial ideology and how this ideology was transformed and disseminated through the law's application over its twenty-year history. In so doing, he shows how the Peace Preservation Law provides a window into understanding how modern states develop ideological apparatuses to subject their respective populations.Asia-Pacific.Lese majestyLaw and legislationJapanHistory20th centuryPolitical crimes and offensesJapanHistory20th centuryJapanPolitics and government1926-1945JapanPolitics and government1912-1945JapanHistory1912-1945Lese majestyLaw and legislationHistoryPolitical crimes and offensesHistory345.52023109042Ward Max M.1973-1342920NDDNDDBOOK996599572503316Thought crime3066779UNISA