Invented Histories: The Nihon Senshi of the Meiji Imperial Japanese Army

Nihon Senshi (Military History of Japan) was part of the new Imperial Japanese Army’s attempt to tie itself to examples from Japan’s “warring states” period, similar to scholars who created a feudal “medieval” time in the Japanese past to fit into Western historiography, and intellectuals who disco...

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Main Author: Nathan H. LEDBETTER
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2018-06-01
Series:Asian Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/7543