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    The National Spiritual Mobilization Movement (国民精神総動員運動, Kokumin Seishin Sōdōin Undō) was an organization established in the Empire of Japan as part of...
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    shipbuilding remaining 1/6th of that of the United States. National Spiritual Mobilization Movement Pauer, Japan's War Economy, pp.13 Giffard 1997, pp. 87...
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    Imperial Rule Assistance Association (category National conservative parties)
    industries. Society was mobilized and indoctrinated through the National Spiritual Mobilization Movement, which organized patriotic events and mass rallies, and...
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    war, including such measures as the National Service Draft Ordinance and the National Spiritual Mobilization Movement, Japanese militarism was discredited...
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    Unit 731 (category Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Heilongjiang)
    staff member, who was an eyewitness at this escape attempt, recalled: "spiritually we were all lost in front of the 'marutas' who had no freedom and no...
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    landlords were pitted against each other by war needs. The National Spiritual Mobilization Movement was formed from 74 organizations to rally the nation for...
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    totalitarian values. Such measures as the National Service Draft Ordinance and the National Spiritual Mobilization Movement were intended to mobilize Japanese...
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    to Emperor Shōwa the invasion of China and launched the National Spiritual Mobilization Movement, the League of Diet Members Believing the Objectives of...
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    practice of imperial rule, whereby the Emperor of Japan serves solely as the spiritual authority of the nation and his ministers govern the nation in his name...
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    (Gyokuon-hōsō) Kokuchūkai (Column of the Nation Society) National Spiritual Mobilization Movement Shinbutsu-shūgō Socialist thought in Imperial Japan Statism...
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    Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking and retreat of the National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The massacre took...
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    Yokusan Sonendan Great Japan Youth Party Kokutai Mokusatsu National Spiritual Mobilization Movement Peace Preservation Law Political parties Supreme Court...
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    defense. Each unit was also responsible for assisting the National Spiritual Mobilization Movement by distribution of government propaganda and organizing...
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    rebellious, means to gain a voice in government. He started a school and a movement aimed at establishing a constitutional monarchy and a legislative assembly...
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    the military authorities saw an opportunity to annihilate the communist movement in Japan. During the Kantō Massacre an estimated 6000 people, mainly ethnic...
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    attack. From this manual, pilots were told to "attain a high level of spiritual training", and to "keep [their] health in the very best condition". These...
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    taught the Japanese that modern wars would be protracted, require total mobilization and create vulnerabilities for trade embargoes and encirclement. As a...
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    excerpt Drea, Edward J. "The 1942 Japanese General Election: Political Mobilization in Wartime Japan". (U of Kansas, 1979). Duus, Peter, ed. The Cambridge...
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    resulting in the ero guro nansensu ("eroticism, grotesquerie and nonsense") movement as he complained about such forms of "Western decadence" like young couples...
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    democratic parties. Thus, the era is considered the time of the liberal movement known as Taishō Democracy; it is usually distinguished from the preceding...
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    the United States by the shogunate. Late 1850s–1860s: The "Sonnō jōi" movement is in full force. 1858: The shogunate signs treaties with the Netherlands...
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    accordance with a presidential directive from Truman to the National Academy of Sciences–National Research Council to conduct investigations of the late effects...
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    Policy in Korea under the Last Stage of Japanese Occupation: The Mobilization to the Movement for Daily Use and Understanding of Japanese before the Introduction...
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    military rank as officers of the Army, and they had been guaranteed safety of movement by General MacArthur's headquarters. General Prince Yasuhiko Asaka was...
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    were the National Spiritual Mobilization Movement and the Imperial Rule Assistance Association.[citation needed] The State General Mobilization Law had...
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    (華北特殊化; huáběitèshūhùa), more commonly known as the North China Autonomous Movement. The northern provinces affected by this policy were Chahar, Suiyuan, Hebei...
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    interrogate suspects who may be allied soldiers, spies or resistance movement, maintain security of prisoner of war camps, raiding to capture high-value...
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    approach. The Freedom and People's Rights Movement demanded the immediate establishment of an elected national assembly, and the promulgation of a constitution...
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    so crowded and everyone so interlocked with one another that the only movement possible was over the heads and bodies of others. Rakuyo Maru was torpedoed...
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    the main Satsuma army arrived and attacked Kumamoto Castle in a pincer movement. Fighting continued into the night. Imperial forces fell back, and acting...
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