Tracking exclusionary nationalism through language (IMAGE)
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Researchers analyzed more than 300,000 Japanese newspaper articles published between 1912 and 1943, tracking whether foreign place names were written in katakana or in kanji-based transliterations known as ateji. Shifts toward greater ateji use were associated with rising exclusionary nationalism, suggesting that nationalist attitudes in Japan changed unevenly rather than increasing steadily before the outbreak of war in 1941.
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Associate Professor Tomoko Matsumoto from Tokyo University of Science, Japan
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