kokutai
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noun
- The national essence and character of Japan viewed as conforming to Shinto-Confucian ideals, with the emperor as its ethical, spiritual, cultural and political center.
- The ideology centered on the principle of kokutai.
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Borrowed from Japanese 国体(こくたい) (kokutai, literally “national character”).
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