Pure Spirits: Imperial Japanese Justice and Right-Wing Terrorists, 1878–1936

Why was the legal system in 1930s Japan so friendly to right-wing offenders, even when they tried to assassinate leading statesmen and generals? The answer is intertwined with a cultural narrative defined here as “subjectivism”, that assigned vital importance to a criminal’s subjective state of min...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Danny ORBACH
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/7675