Japanese nationalism and geographical thought

Bibliographic Data

ID3948552
AuthorsAkihiko Takagi (0000-0003-4733-7471, Kyushu University, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume3
Issue3
Pages125-139
Publication date1998-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650049808407631
OpenAlexW2000104478
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited4

There has been simultaneous emergence in many countries of the world of political disputes over aspects of national history in the 1990s. Geographical knowledge has political implications. Hence it is concerned with the formation of national identity as well as historical knowledge. This paper examines the relationships between Japanese modernisation and geographical thought, the characteristics of school textbooks and geopolitics in Japan during the Asia Pacific War, and recent disputes about views of history and the meaning of views of geography in the post‐Cold War era. Consequently, it is shown that the view of geography promoted the formation of national identity in the same way as that of history through geographical education and geopolitics. Taking the roles of geography into consideration, it can be said that an imaginative geography based on an ethnocentric view plays an important role in the time of rethinking national history. We should be aware of such an ethnocentric view of geography and make an effort to overcome differences in views between nations

Aesthetics · Ethnocentrism · Geography · Geopolitics · Human geography · Identity (music) · Modernization theory · National identity · Nationalism · Political economy · Political geography · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Geography Education and Pedagogy · Japanese History and Culture · Law

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