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Volume 12, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 1792-2593
  • E-ISSN: 2507-0371

Abstract

Abstract

In Japan of the 1930s and 1940s, a rise in nationalism and an ideological backlash against both the West and modernization provided the backdrop for the rise of antievolutionary thought. Ideologues affiliated with the government led an antievolution campaign and tried to push evolution out of the classroom. Antievolutionary thought in this period in Japan was characterized by associating evolution with individualism, capitalism, and left-wing thought, all seen as products of Western culture.

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