ABSTRACT
Following the encounter with the limits of civilizational history, this chapter looks at how the German concept of kultur, reimagining of Asia as a spiritual entity, and legitimation of Japanese imperialism came to intertwine under Kiyoshi Miki’s writings in the 1930s and 1940s. Examining Miki’s writings on the East Asia Cooperative Body and how this came to underwrite Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe’s declaration of New Cultural Order elucidates the danger of employing culture as means of resistance.
