| Prologue |
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The Role of ATIS in Intelligence Gathering |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (9) |
| Author's Note |
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21 | (2) |
| Acknowledgements |
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23 | (2) |
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25 | (18) |
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A Synopsis ofjapanese Military History |
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The Emergence of the Kokutai: The Re-creation of the Ancient Myth |
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26 | (3) |
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29 | (5) |
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Becoming the Emperor's Soldiers |
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34 | (2) |
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The Ultimate Weapon: The Spirit of Yamato Damashii |
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36 | (4) |
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40 | (3) |
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2 An Extraordinary Diary of an Ordinary Soldier |
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43 | (26) |
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43 | (1) |
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The Diarist: Tamura Yoshikazu |
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44 | (1) |
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A Soldier Diarist's Journey |
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45 | (6) |
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The Diary of Tamura Yoshikazu |
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51 | (1) |
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The Diary as a Tool of Investigation: Uncovering Kokutai |
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52 | (1) |
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For Whom Does Tamura Write? |
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53 | (3) |
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56 | (5) |
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61 | (2) |
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63 | (6) |
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3 Priming the Country for War: Imperial Rescripts as Fortifiers of the Kokutai |
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69 | (24) |
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Disseminating Kokutai Ideology: Imperial Rescripts |
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69 | (4) |
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From Ritualism to Unconditional Conformism: Enforcing the Kokutai |
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73 | (3) |
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The Ultimate Kokutai Text: The Kokutai no Hongi |
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76 | (5) |
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81 | (3) |
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84 | (2) |
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Ensuring Soldiers' Compliance: The Senjinkun |
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86 | (1) |
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The Kokutai as Dysfunctional Military Family |
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87 | (1) |
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88 | (5) |
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93 | (20) |
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Japan as the Sublime: The Acculturation of Japanese Nature |
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93 | (7) |
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100 | (2) |
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The Jungle as Physically Perverse |
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102 | (2) |
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104 | (1) |
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The Ennui of Endless Rain |
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105 | (8) |
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5 The Landscape of Deprivation |
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113 | (28) |
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113 | (5) |
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The Spectre of Starvation |
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118 | (9) |
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Disease, Illness, and Utter Fatigue |
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127 | (4) |
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131 | (4) |
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135 | (6) |
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6 Creating an Idealized World |
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141 | (32) |
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141 | (1) |
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142 | (2) |
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144 | (9) |
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153 | (6) |
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Journey across the Asian Continent |
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159 | (7) |
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166 | (7) |
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7 Re-creating an Emotionally Accommodating Landscape |
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173 | (28) |
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173 | (1) |
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Nature: Controller or Controlled |
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174 | (2) |
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Autumn as a Seasonal Anchor |
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176 | (3) |
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179 | (8) |
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187 | (6) |
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The Battlefield as Surreal Landscape |
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193 | (8) |
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8 Death as Man's True Calling |
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201 | (34) |
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The Grand Desire to Die for the Emperor |
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201 | (2) |
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Ego Involvement: Reward for Loyalty |
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203 | (2) |
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205 | (8) |
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The Ocean as Facilitator of a Noble Death |
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213 | (7) |
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220 | (7) |
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227 | (8) |
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9 Challenges to a Resolve to Die |
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235 | (36) |
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The Useless Rhetoric of the Emancipation of Asia |
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235 | (6) |
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The Tedium, the Terror, and the Lowly Role |
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241 | (14) |
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255 | (8) |
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263 | (8) |
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271 | (28) |
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Relinquishing a Sense of Self-Jibun ga Nai |
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271 | (3) |
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The Torment of Becoming a Man without a Me |
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274 | (17) |
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Accepting Death: The Final Act of Loyalty |
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291 | (8) |
| Epilogue |
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299 | (12) |
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307 | (4) |
| Glossary of Terms |
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311 | (4) |
| Abbreviations for sources held at the Australian War Memorial (Canberra, ACT) |
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315 | (2) |
| Bibliography |
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317 | (12) |
| Index |
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