This concept of legality was a perversion of the teachings of Professor Kiyoshi Hiraizumi, who had incalculable influence over the officer corps. In 1926, at the age of thirty-one, he became an assistant professor at Tokyo Imperial University. His main interest was Japanese history, his main purpose to preserve the spirit of the leaders of the Meiji period. When Communism began sweeping the campus he countered by establishing his Green-Green School.‡ The essence of his teaching was that each nation has its own tradition, history and morality and other nations should respect the differences. He
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