State Shinto

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State Shinto was the government-controlled form of Shinto in pre-World War II Japan that promoted emperor worship and nationalism as part of the state ideology.


Statements (49)
Predicate Object
instanceOf form of Shinto
government policy
political ideology
state religion
abolished 1945
abolishedBy Allied occupation of Japan
Shinto Directive
afterAbolition constitutional separation of religion and state in Japan
aimedAt legitimizing imperial rule
mobilizing the population for the state
appliesToPeriod Meiji period
Taisho period
early Showa period
associatedWith Meiji Restoration
State ideology of prewar Japan
imperial rescript on education
basedOn Japanese nationalism
Shinto
emperor worship
kokutai ideology
controlledBy Bureau of Shrines
Home Ministry of Japan
Japanese government
country Japan
distinguishedFrom religion in the legal sense
endTime 1945
hasCentralConcept divinity of the emperor
sacredness of the Japanese nation
unity of religion and state
hasPart State-sponsored rituals
imperial rites
school rituals
shrine Shinto administration
state ceremonies
influenced Japanese colonial policy
wartime propaganda in Japan
legalStatus non-religious national cult
promoted cultural homogeneity
loyalty to the emperor
militarism
ultranationalism
regulates Shinto priests
Shinto shrines
shrine finances
separatedFrom Sect Shinto
startTime 1868
uses education system
school textbooks
state ceremonies


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