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Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushidō in Modern Japan by Oleg Benesch (review)

Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushidō in Modern Japan by... Review Section existing English- and Japanese-language primary and secondary sources on the same topics. Understandably, these chapters are more focused on Hokkaido. This reviewer looks forward to reading more comprehensive versions of these studies by the contributors because indiscriminate aerial attacks, commemorations of war animals, the people-in-history-movement, indentured labor, commemorative religious sites, war museums, and the military-community relationship could all serve as an enlightening lens through which we can understand not only local history and memory, but also regional, national, and international history and the memory of World War II. Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan. By Oleg Benesch. Oxford University Press, ¯ Oxford, 2014. viii, 284 pages. $99.00, cloth; $40.00, paper. Reviewed by James Mark Shields Bucknell University This is a solid, well-written, and immensely informative piece of scholarship. It is also a work that can be frustrating at times, though this is less because of any limitations on the part of the author or his method than due to the inherent complexity and multivalence of the primary theme: bushido, ¯ the so-called “way of the samurai” (or “way of the warrior”). A line in the conclusion sums this up http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Japanese Studies Society for Japanese Studies

Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushidō in Modern Japan by Oleg Benesch (review)

Shields, James Mark
The Journal of Japanese Studies , Volume 43 (2) – Jul 22, 2017
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Review Section existing English- and Japanese-language primary and secondary sources on the same topics. Understandably, these chapters are more focused on Hokkaido. This reviewer looks forward to reading more comprehensive versions of these studies by the contributors because indiscriminate aerial attacks, commemorations of war animals, the people-in-history-movement, indentured labor, commemorative religious sites, war museums, and the military-community relationship could all serve as an enlightening lens through which we can understand not only local history and memory, but also regional, national, and international history and the memory of World War II. Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan. By Oleg Benesch. Oxford University Press, ¯ Oxford, 2014. viii, 284 pages. $99.00, cloth; $40.00, paper. Reviewed by James Mark Shields Bucknell University This is a solid, well-written, and immensely informative piece of scholarship. It is also a work that can be frustrating at times, though this is less because of any limitations on the part of the author or his method than due to the inherent complexity and multivalence of the primary theme: bushido, ¯ the so-called “way of the samurai” (or “way of the warrior”). A line in the conclusion sums this up

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Published: Jul 22, 2017

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