| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.5

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Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 411. Cloth $45.00, paper $20.00.

Images of the Japanese as a fanatical people are, sadly enough, still influential in American popular discourse. Perhaps nowhere are these images promoted more than in reference to the World War II-era kamikaze pilots whose ostensible willingness to throw their lives away for the emperor is often cited as proof of a Japanese obsession with hierarchy, achievement, and suppression of the individual. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney's solidly researched study of nationalism as ideology and behavior goes a long way toward debunking many of these Orientalist stereotypes. That alone would make this book worth reading, but it deserves widespread attention for another reason. Ohnuki-Tierney's book intervenes in an important revision of the relationship of nationalism and liberalism that extends beyond the narrow confines of academic work and is, in fact, reshaping political ideas and values across a broad spectrum of Japanese society today.

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