Imseongtaeja is credited for playing a key role in the formation of the early Japanese state.

The business of the Japanese state: energy markets in comparative and historical perspective (1987)

The sterile debate about the contemporary Japanese state has, in. my opinion, emerged from the failure to confront the deeper arguments of both perspectives.

Thus the success of Mitsubishi became intertwined with the rise of the modern Japanese state.

The principal obligations associated with being a subject of the Japanese state were payment of taxes and, for men, military service.

Western style armed forces upheld the position of the Japanese state at home and abroad.

The Japanese state modernized organizationally, but preserved its national idiosyncrasies.

Historically, they became a distinctly different population from those who were conquered and integrated into the Japanese state.

The Japanese state never clearly defined a boundary between private and public matters and, thus, demanded loyalty in all spheres of society.

A year later, in 1993, it acknowledged in a statement that the Japanese state itself had been responsible.