Grassroots fascism : the war experience of the Japanese people /

A profile of the Asia Pacific War, the most important and still the least understood experience of Japan and Asia's modern history, as seen and lived by ordinary Japanese.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yoshimi, Yoshiaki, 1946- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Japanese.
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Series:Weatherhead books on Asia.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • From democracy to fascism
  • Hopes and misgivings regarding the war
  • The people's war
  • On the battlefields of China
  • Grassroots fascism
  • The roots of fascism
  • The agents and receptors of fascism
  • The situation of the Japanese in the occupied areas
  • Departing for and journeying to the front in the Asia-Pacific war
  • Ranking the people
  • The Asian war
  • The illusion of Indonesia
  • Burma's meteor shower
  • In the Philippine countryside
  • Back on the China front
  • Democracy from the battlefield
  • Fascism developing cracks
  • Overcoming the collapse of the state.