Things to know from
Sources of Japanese Tradition, chs. 25-29
The Charter Oath
Imperial Rescript on Education
Meiji attitudes towards "the West"
The "Korean Question"
Ito Hirobumi's Thinking on Constitutionalism
kokutai
Okuma Shigenobu
Itagaki Taisuke
Yamagata Aritomo
Imperial Precepts to Soldiers and Sailors
The Twenty-One Demands
Taisho Liberalism
Yoshino Sakuzo
Minobe Tatsukichi
Shidehara Kijuro
"Revolutionary Nationalism"
Black Dragon Society
"Taisho Restoration"
Kita Ikki
Fundamentals of Our National Polity (Kokutai
no hongi)
Japanese Rationale for War
Greater East Asian Coprosperity Sphere
Kotoku Shusui
Kawakami Hajime
Uchimura Kanzo
Nishida Kitaro