A New Look at the Problem of 'Japanese Fascism

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ID2106756
AuthorsGeorge Macklin Wilson
Year1968
Volume10
Issue4
Pages401-412
Publication date1968-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500005016
OpenAlexW2117781538
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited17

In the decade and a half from 1931 to 1945 Japan confronted a series of domestic and international crises culminating in the national disaster of World War II. Many authors - both Japanese and Western - have portrayed this period in terms of the labeling generalization 'fascism', suggesting that Japan's experience ran parallel to that of such European countries as Italy under Mussolini and Germany during the Third Reich. My object here, after first attempting to explain how and why this interpretation arose, is to take issue with it, but in criticizing the use of the label fascism I do not mean to fall back to the position that what happened was simplysui generis, a somehow 'unique' Japanese response to the troublesome developments of the interwar world. Fascism has the virtue of being a comparative concept, and if we throw it out we need to seek other comparative concepts to test as possible replacements

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Economic history · First world war · Interpretation (philosophy) · Interwar period · Nazi Germany · Period (music) · Political science · Third world · Virtue · World War II · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy

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