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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE. Useful Buddhism, 1868–1945
CHAPTER TWO.Peace of Mind at Any Price
CHAPTER THREE . Indebted in Our Proper Places
CHAPTER FOUR. Modern Buddhism for the Protection of the Realm
CHAPTER FIVE. Quick Conversions and Slow Apologies in Postwar Japan
CHAPTER SIX. From Collaboration to Criticism
CHAPTER SEVEN. Absent Ethics, Present Ethics
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ICHIKAWA HAKUGEN‘S MAJOR WORKS
INDEX