Kokkashugi (国家主義), sometimes also called Japanese-style fascism (日本型ファシズム, Nihongata fashizumu), or Shōwa Statism, was the ruling ideology of the Empire of

During the 1930s, Japan moved into political totalitarianism, ultranationalism, and fascism, culminating in its invasion of China in 1937. Examine how fascism …

De Vargas is currently working on Japanese left-wing political theories and cultural representations of fascism, and on the conversion of left-wing intellectuals into right-wing id

Japanese insistently repudiate the term “Fascist” as applied to their national movement, contending that it is not a copy of Italian and German methods but a nationalism of Jap

This volume makes Japanese fascism available as a critical point of comparison for scholars of fascism worldwide. The concluding essay models such work by …

Jun 8, 2017 · Focusing on the case of Japanese-occupied Manchuria, this article asks what set Japan, Germany, and Italy apart from other empires during the …

Apr 30, 2025 · By 1937, Japan had fully transitioned to a military-fascist state—a process distinct from Germany’s Nazi revolution. Unlike Hitler’s mass movement, Japan’s

Oct 28, 2010 · This article holds that asking whether Japan is fascist is a conceptual quagmire. It also discusses Japan between wars, Maruyama Masao's conceptualization of Japane

There are basically two lines of interpretation which have yielded the con-clusion that Japan became a fascist state during the nineteen-thirties. One is the Marxist approach, the

While Japan exhibited fascist characteristics such as totalitarianism, militarism, and ultranationalism, it relied on the divine authority of the Emperor and the existing establish