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Neonationalism, Religion, and Patriotic Education in Post-disaster Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Mark R. Mullins
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Recent decades have seen a rise in religious nationalism around the world, and Japan is no exception. Over the past two decades there has been a significant rightward shift in Japanese politics and this trend is closely related to organized religion and its affiliated political efforts to “recover” or “restore” what had been destroyed during the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-52). Our focus here is on the close connection between the Association of Shintō Shrines (Jinja Honchō) and many politicians belonging to the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). This Association, which was organized in 1946, has some 80,000 affiliated shrines throughout the country and has been the base institution for Shintō nationalism throughout the postwar period.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 20 , October 2016 , e2
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