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The “non-religious” red cross emblem and Japan

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N. Margaret Kosuge
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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 85 , Issue 849: Les nouveaux types de conflits/New types of conflicts , March 2003 , pp. 75 - 94
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20 On the growing sensitivity to war deaths and suffering in Western society, and especially in Great Britain, from the Crimean War to the First World War, see N. Margaret Kosuge, “Senshitai no hakken – jind-oshugi to aikokushugi o h-oy-o saseta shintai,” in Suzuki Akihito, and Ishizuka Hisao (eds), Shintai ibunkaron – kankaku to yokub -o, Keio University Press, Tokyo, 2002, pp. 349–384.

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30 N. Margaret Kosuge, “S-od-oin to Nisseki bunku” (General Mobilization and the Japanese Red Cross Society Sub-branches), in Enzan City History Compilation Committee (ed.), Enzan-shi shi, ts -oshi hen, gekan, Enzan City, Yamanashi Prefecture, 1998Google Scholar. See especially pp. 352–354.

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42 The quoted passages are from Sat-o Kasaku, “Jihen to kokusaih-o kanken,” in Gaik -o Jih -o, No. 801, 1938, pp. 92–101.

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