Abstract

May 2020, Volume 48, Number 3 61 the Aporias of Imperial Sovereignty: Thought Section, argues that the IRS The Passage of the Peace Preservation “functioned in an intermediary pos- ition between political criminals, the Law in 1925.” In this chapter, Ward state, and the wider community, one “explores how bureaucrats and legisla- that does not fit in the conventional tors struggled to legally define kokutai dualistic approach of tenk
o as a con- in the initial deliberations over the frontation between external state coer- Peace Preservation Bill in 1925, and cion and an individual’sinternal what kind of questions these debates ideas” (90) that Shinsuke believed produced regarding the nature of accounted for the central motivation of Ward, Max M imperial sovereignty” (22). ideological conversion. In this fasci- Thought Crime: Ideology and State In chapter 2, titled “Transcriptions nating chapter, Ward goes on to Power in Interwar Japan of Power: Repression and explain the reconversion process Durham, NC: Duke University Press Rehabilitation in the Early Peace through the lens of a concrete, detailed 312 pp., $26.95, Preservation Law Apparatus, analysis of the reconvert Kobayashi ISBN 978-1478001652 1925–1933,” Ward illustrates how the Morito. The reconversion process Publication Date: March 2019 Peace Preservation