With a more aggressive foreign policy, and victory over China in the First Sino-Japanese War and over Imperial Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, Japan joined the Western imperialis

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

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

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

Dec 30, 2023 · The evidence strongly suggests that Japan’s regime during the 1930s-1940s is best understood as primarily militarist rather than fascist, though it incorporated c

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

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

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

Tōhōkai (東方会; Society of the East) was a Japanese fascist political party. The party was active in Japan during the 1930s and early 1940s. Its origins lay in the right-wing

Imperial Japan withdrew from the League of Nations in 1933, bringing it closer to Nazi Germany, which also left that year, and to Fascist Italy, which was dissatisfied with the Lea