A legitimação do Estado japonês através do folclore e sua influência na política externa no período de 1912-1945

Abstract

The present paper aims to analyze Japanese foreign policy from 1912 to 1945 through a folklore perspective, focusing on prose narrative, nominally myths, legends and folktale, in order to answer how the folkloric and mythological legitimation of the Japanese State justified its expansionist foreign policy between 1912 and 1945? To this end, the methodology used was a literature review seeking to draw a causal relationship between the independent variable "mythological and folkloric legitimation of the Japanese State" and the dependent variable "Japanese expansionist foreign policy between 1912 and 1945" through the following: The conceptualization and delimitation of the terms folklore, myth, legend and folktale; the description of how folklore acts in State building, and analysis of Japanese myth in this function; and finally, the analysis of foreign and expansionist policy in the period of 1912-1945.