I., 1993) Also, Meiji proposed western style of harmonics and oil-painting with western art media and style, that allows students receive same kinds of training and ideology education. I., 1993) The Japanese schoolboy wearing a westernized uniform around 1884, symbolizing a sense of belonging to school. I., 1993) In order to offend from foreign invasion and the spread of Westernization under rapid modernization, the Meiji Emperor’s 1871 mandate that adopting Western culture to fight against the West such as government officers wear westernized uniforms. Moreover, standardization of cloths, that is a group of people to wear certain common clothes, which point up the commonality of those wearing them and differentiate them from other peoples, also contributes to Japanese nationalism. “The scale of the newly formed “religious police” was simply extraordinary.” (Garon, S.,1998) The increasing number of religious police who caught the followers of pseudo religions, means that the rising power and authority of the Meiji government. The cabinet centralized jurisdiction and power over controlling religions within the Police Bureau’s Public Security Section. I., 1993)īesides, Meiji government passed legislation to dissolve “pseudo religions”, except from Buddhism, Shinto and Christianity, unifying the nation religions. (Gordon, A., 2003) First military reform adopted by Meiji government in1870 when nationalism was on the rise. The Meiji era drive to construct a modern nation of “civilization and enlightenment” with economic and military reform as well as culture transformation. Meiji government has uniformed the religion and uniform in the country, also adopt military reform. The primordialist describes nationalism as organizing groups based on an affinity of birth, that develop identity and cooperation beyond the limits of family while the modernist interprets that nationalism arises only in modern societies as a result of industrialization economies, a centralized supreme authority and unification of languages.
There are different approaches describ ing the essence of nationalism. General feature of Japanese’s nationalism in Meiji Tennō (1868–1912) period In this essay, I will describe and illustrate the general features and unique features of Japanese nationalism in Meiji Period. Owing to the upsurge in nationalism after World War II, Japan then succeeded in modernizing herself and yet in keeping much of her traditional culture as well under state-led modernization and civilization.
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