Japanese Nationalism / Nationalistic Societies

Reports on the detention of 110 suspected Japanese war criminals, including "Gen. Takeji Washi, former chief of staff of Japanese general headquarters." Also detained in China was Gen. Eugene Ott, "Nazi ambassador to Tokyo at the time of Pearl Harbor." Other news items report on the rush by Japanese business men to form a "league for safeguarding the emperor" and the progress of plans to purge ultra-nationalists from public office.

Reports on the testimony of Ryukichi Tanaka regarding the training of "an estimated 2,500,000 men in Manchuria for war against Soviet Russia." "It was in line with this belief that a conflict with Russia was unavoidable that the Japanese set up a series of pro-Japanese governments in North China and inner Mongolia after their conquest of Manchuria," Tanaka testified. He also gave evidence regarding "the series of plots by a coalition of Japanese civilian ultra-nationalist groups and extreme militarists which brought about the Manchurian incident beginning Sept. 18, 1931."

Document giving an overview of the long history and development of Japanese nationalism. The analysis is "based primarily on official police records and on the court records of the coup d'etat trials of the thirties." Ties together the religious, political and social contexts of Japanese nationalism.

To all Attorneys. File No. 250. Indicates that the IPS has recently acquired a nationalistic pamphlet titled "The Brocade Banner" that describes the history of Japanese Nationalism from 1877. Indicates how it can be used, a summary of nationalism in Japan and the names of Ultra-Nationalistic Societies.