Reto Hofmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3959561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reto Hofmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reto |
| FAMILY NAME | Hofmann |
| SIGNATURE | HOFMANN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Waseda University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7501-1893 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dreams and Nightmares
Thinking about and planning for the end of war generally begins as soon as fighting breaks out, if not long before. Yet few studies analyse how participants considered and prepared for war’s outcomes, and even fewer compare the dynamic of wartime projections in different times and places. Using a transnational longitudinal approach, this article focuses on a series of case-studies across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia to examine …
The conservative imaginary
Moral Re-armament (MRA) was an international religious movement that caught the attention of politicians, industrialists, and union leaders around the world in the 1940s and 1950s, including three (future) Japanese prime ministers – Nakasone Yasuhiro, Hatoyama Ichirō, and Kishi Nobusuke. This article examines their involvement in MRA, showing that it provided them with an internationalist register – and network – to adjust older, prewar ideas abo…
What's Left of the Right
This article examines the thought and career of Nabeyama Sadachika (1901-79) from communist militant in 1920s Japan to his conversion to the emperor system in the 1930s and, finally, to his role in shaping the postwar anti-communist movement. Using Nabeyama's recently released private papers, the article shows how he brokered his anti-communist expertise to a range of postwar actors and institutions-the police, the Self-Defense Forces, business c…
D avid D. R oberts . Fascist Interactions
With the current wave of right-wing politics spreading across the world, David D. Roberts has written a timely book. Fascist Interactions is about the dialogue between movements, regimes, and ideas of the Right across time and space—mainly until 1945, but with an eye beyond, and principally within Europe, though other parts of the globe are sometimes drawn into the conversation. Written with erudition, Fascist Interactions is the most up-to-date …
The fascist new–old order
Contemporaries and historians alike have explained the imperialism of interwar Japan, Italy, and Germany through the paradigm of a ‘new world order’. This article critically revisits this received assumption by analysing the place of the Axis in the longer history of imperialism from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War. If we cast Axis empires – a blend of fascism and imperialism – in the larger framework constituted by the relati…
A Collaborative Review of Grassroots Fascism
17 Codex A Collaborative Review of Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People by Yoshimi Yoshiaki Grassroots Fascism, Greater Asianism, and the Centrality of the Sino- Japanese War Ethan Mark I first encountered GrassrootsFascism in the context of a Japanese history graduate seminar at Columbia University way back in 1991. At the time, I was gearing up for a dissertation project on the Japanese occupation of Indonesia during W…
The Fascist Effect
During the interwar period, Japanese intellectuals, writers, activists, and politicians, although conscious of the many points of intersection between their politics and those of Mussolini, were ambivalent about the comparability of Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy. This book uncovers the ideological links that tied Japan to Italy, drawing on extensive materials from Japanese and Italian archives to shed light on the formation of fascist history …
The Fascist Effect
During the interwar period, Japanese intellectuals, writers, activists, and politicians, although conscious of the many points of intersection between their politics and those of Mussolini, were ambivalent about the comparability of Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy. In The Fascist Effect, Reto Hofmann uncovers the ideological links that tied Japan to Italy, drawing on extensive materials from Japanese and Italian archives to shed light on the for…
Yoshimi Yoshiaki, Grassroots Fascism
Imperial Links
This article investigates Japanese New Order thinking in terms of the political and cultural debates sparked by the Italian aggression of Ethiopia (1935–6). Interpreting the war in light of Japan’s earlier conquest of Manchuria (1931), Japanese ideologues, policymakers, and journalists expressed a mixture of rage and relief. On one side, they regarded Fascist Italy’s war as old-fashioned Western imperialism – from which Japan claimed to be libera…
Imperial Links
This article investigates Japanese New Order thinking in terms of the political and cultural debates sparked by the Italian aggression of Ethiopia (1935–6). Interpreting the war in light of Japan’s earlier conquest of Manchuria (1931), Japanese ideologues, policymakers, and journalists expressed a mixture of rage and relief. On one side, they regarded Fascist Italy’s war as old-fashioned Western imperialism – from which Japan claimed to be libera…
The conservative imaginary
Moral Re-armament (MRA) was an international religious movement that caught the attention of politicians, industrialists, and union leaders around the world in the 1940s and 1950s, including three (future) Japanese prime ministers – Nakasone Yasuhiro, Hatoyama Ichirō, and Kishi Nobusuke. This article examines their involvement in MRA, showing that it provided them with an internationalist register – and network – to adjust older, prewar ideas abo…
The fascist new–old order
Contemporaries and historians alike have explained the imperialism of interwar Japan, Italy, and Germany through the paradigm of a ‘new world order’. This article critically revisits this received assumption by analysing the place of the Axis in the longer history of imperialism from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War. If we cast Axis empires – a blend of fascism and imperialism – in the larger framework constituted by the relati…
Imperial Links
This article investigates Japanese New Order thinking in terms of the political and cultural debates sparked by the Italian aggression of Ethiopia (1935–6). Interpreting the war in light of Japan’s earlier conquest of Manchuria (1931), Japanese ideologues, policymakers, and journalists expressed a mixture of rage and relief. On one side, they regarded Fascist Italy’s war as old-fashioned Western imperialism – from which Japan claimed to be libera…
The Fascist Effect
During the interwar period, Japanese intellectuals, writers, activists, and politicians, although conscious of the many points of intersection between their politics and those of Mussolini, were ambivalent about the comparability of Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy. This book uncovers the ideological links that tied Japan to Italy, drawing on extensive materials from Japanese and Italian archives to shed light on the formation of fascist history …
The Fascist Effect
During the interwar period, Japanese intellectuals, writers, activists, and politicians, although conscious of the many points of intersection between their politics and those of Mussolini, were ambivalent about the comparability of Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy. In The Fascist Effect, Reto Hofmann uncovers the ideological links that tied Japan to Italy, drawing on extensive materials from Japanese and Italian archives to shed light on the for…
Yoshimi Yoshiaki, Grassroots Fascism
A Collaborative Review of Grassroots Fascism
17 Codex A Collaborative Review of Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People by Yoshimi Yoshiaki Grassroots Fascism, Greater Asianism, and the Centrality of the Sino- Japanese War Ethan Mark I first encountered GrassrootsFascism in the context of a Japanese history graduate seminar at Columbia University way back in 1991. At the time, I was gearing up for a dissertation project on the Japanese occupation of Indonesia during W…
The fascist new–old order
Contemporaries and historians alike have explained the imperialism of interwar Japan, Italy, and Germany through the paradigm of a ‘new world order’. This article critically revisits this received assumption by analysing the place of the Axis in the longer history of imperialism from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War. If we cast Axis empires – a blend of fascism and imperialism – in the larger framework constituted by the relati…
D avid D. R oberts . Fascist Interactions
With the current wave of right-wing politics spreading across the world, David D. Roberts has written a timely book. Fascist Interactions is about the dialogue between movements, regimes, and ideas of the Right across time and space—mainly until 1945, but with an eye beyond, and principally within Europe, though other parts of the globe are sometimes drawn into the conversation. Written with erudition, Fascist Interactions is the most up-to-date …
What's Left of the Right
This article examines the thought and career of Nabeyama Sadachika (1901-79) from communist militant in 1920s Japan to his conversion to the emperor system in the 1930s and, finally, to his role in shaping the postwar anti-communist movement. Using Nabeyama's recently released private papers, the article shows how he brokered his anti-communist expertise to a range of postwar actors and institutions-the police, the Self-Defense Forces, business c…
The conservative imaginary
Moral Re-armament (MRA) was an international religious movement that caught the attention of politicians, industrialists, and union leaders around the world in the 1940s and 1950s, including three (future) Japanese prime ministers – Nakasone Yasuhiro, Hatoyama Ichirō, and Kishi Nobusuke. This article examines their involvement in MRA, showing that it provided them with an internationalist register – and network – to adjust older, prewar ideas abo…
Dreams and Nightmares
Thinking about and planning for the end of war generally begins as soon as fighting breaks out, if not long before. Yet few studies analyse how participants considered and prepared for war’s outcomes, and even fewer compare the dynamic of wartime projections in different times and places. Using a transnational longitudinal approach, this article focuses on a series of case-studies across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia to examine …
Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economic history (4 works) · Law (4 works) · World War II (4 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (3 works)