Ikki Kita
Tokyo Metropolitan Library archives · Public domain
- Full name
- Kita.
- Born
- 1883. · Minato.
- Died
- 1937. · Tokyo Army Prison.
- Nationality
- Empire of Japan.
- Occupation
- writer, philosopher and esperantist.
- Education
- Waseda University.
- Known for
- Kokutairon and Pure Socialism and An Outline Plan for the Reorganization of Japan.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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Ikki Kita (1883 – 1937) was an “Intellektueller”.
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Ikki Kita was born in 1883 and died in 1937.
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Ikki Kita is recorded as writer, philosopher and esperantist.
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1883
Ikki Kita born.
1937
Ikki Kita died.
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scholarly publication
- 7. KITA IKKI IN JAPANESE HISTORIOGRAPHY, Radical Nationalist in Japan, 1969
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KITA IKKI IN JAPANESE HISTORIOGRAPHY, Radical Nationalist in Japan, 1969
The Sado Years, Kita Ikki and the Making of Modern Japan, 2006
Kita Ikki, The Encyclopedia of Political Science, 2011
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- 1.Maruyama, Masao. Thoughts and Behaviour in Modern Japanese Politics. Oxford University Press. 165. 1956.
- 2.Wilson, George M. Radical Nationalists in Japan: Kita Ikki 1883-1937. Harward University Press, Cambridge, 1969.
- 3.Koschmann, J. Victor. Authority and the Individual in Japan. University of Tokyo Press. 1978.
- 4.Draper, Hal. The Two Souls of Socialism: socialism from below v. socialism from above. Young People's Socialist League. 1963. 9434175.
- 5.Large, Stephen S. Organized Workers and Socialist Politics in Interwar Japan. Cambridge University Press. 1981. 978-0-521-23675-1.
- 6.Crump, John. The Origins of Socialist Thought in Japan. St. Martin's Press. 1983. 978-0-312-58872-4.
- 7.Morishima, Michio. Why Has Japan 'Succeeded'?. Cambridge University Press. 145-146. 1982.
- 8.Wilson, George Macklin. Radical Nationalist in Japan: Kita Ikki, 1883–1937. Harvard University Press. 37. 1969. 11889.
- 9.Rather, he criticized conflicts between advocates of kokutai and advocates of Western ideas for they did not understand social change and evolution of Japan, and he thought Japan had been a democracy (minsyukoku) led by the Emperor, which was not directly imported from the Western, since the Meiji Restoration, which was a movement to be liberated from servitude to the Shogun and the Daimyo. In the introduction he also wrote “Japanese nationals surely need to understand the justice of the nation and human rights of equality”.
- 10.His main purpose of this coup was to clarify the meaning and the principle of the Emperor, who is the representative of the people.
- 11.They were the Meiji oligarchy, Zaibatsu (Concerns), Gunbatsu (Military Factions), landlords, the Oriental Development Company and so on.
- 12.James L. McClain, Japan: A Modern History (W.W. Norton & Company, 2002) pp. 437-439 .
- 13.He thought this was analogous to domestic class conflict Vladimir Lenin actually had done in Russia, which was rationalized.
- 14.He believed that this would be a model of racial equality and that only the Empire of Japan could bring about unity between the cultures of the East and West.
- 15.He stressed that a coup is not for conservative autocracy, it is the direct expression of the general will, and that the general will should be expressed by the fusion of the Emperor and the people, not the authorities.
- 16.He also mentioned there was anti-Japanese sentiment in China and argued Japan needed to deprive Britain of Hong Kong and build a naval base there instead of Qingdao, which had so many people that Shandong coolies were exported.
- 17.Morishima, Michio. Why Has Japan 'Succeeded'?. Cambridge University Press. 144-145. 1982.
- 18.Walter Skya, Japan's Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism pp.123–125 .
- 19.Reikichi Kita (1951). Profile of Heikichi Ogawa (Japanese version) pp. 55, 61. Japan and Japanese 2(3).
- 20.Masking a deeper consistency from the time of his early articles: he calls for Japanese expansion to Korea and Manchuria, as well as for militant war with Russia and Britain—whom he dubs "landlord nations", with Japan a so-called "proletarian nation".
- 21.Howard, Nik. Was Kita Ikki a Socialist?. The London Socialist Historians Group Newsletter. London Socialist Historians Group. 21. Summer 2004.
- 22.Morishima, Michio. Why Has Japan 'Succeeded'?. Cambridge University Press. 146. 1982.
- 23.Morishima, Michio. Why Has Japan 'Succeeded'?. Cambridge University Press. 157. 1982.
- 24.Hiroyuki Usui, A Japanese ultranationalist and Chinese anarchists: unknown forerunners of "sennaciismo" in the East , Conference on Esperanto Studies.
- 25.(eo) Hiroyuki Usui, Prelego pri Esperanto por japanoj en Pekino (Lecture about Esperanto for Japanese in Beijing), China.Espernto.org.cn, 29 January 2013.
- 26.Mishima, Yukio. Spring Snow (1968). English translation by Michael Gallagher, 1972. New York City: Washington Square Press, 1975. Chapter 35, p. 239.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Hirayama, Nagatomo. 2026. "Kita Ikki and Zeng Qi: National Socialism in East Asia, Late 1910s–Early 1930s." Journal of World History 37(2): 167-193.
- cite book
- Tankha, Brij. Kita Ikki And the Making of Modern Japan: A Vision of Empire. Global Oriental. 2006. 978-1-901903-99-7.
- Kamal, Niraj. Arise, Asia! Respond to White Peril. Wordsmiths. 2003. 978-81-87412-08-3.
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