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62 HISTORY: Reviews of New Books family-state of Japan; from the fantasy It is important to note that this proved to be a more powerful ideo- of the state eventually withering away Criminal Protection and Supervision logical force than Western individual- to creating a new expanded national Center was established just a few ism or Marxism in prewar Japan. As I Japanese state; and so forth. months before the publication of have emphasized in my own writings, Interestingly, this process extended Fundamentals of Our Nation Polity there is nothing in modern Western to Korean activists in Japan’sKorean (Kokutai no Hongi) by the Ministry of intellectual history that can adequately colony. In other words, not only did Education in March 1937. The pur- describe or explain this ideological the Japanese outwardly try to destroy pose of Fundamentals of Our National phenomenon. Ward’swork Thought Korean identity by forcing the popula- Polity, written by a selected group of Crimes strikes at the heart of tion to adopt Japanese names and government-appointed prominent aca- this issue. speak Japanese, but they also tried to This book is nicely written and demics, was to clarify and establish inwardly eviscerate the Korean soul well organized, and