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Grassroots fascism : the war experience of the Japanese people
Uniform Title
Kusa no ne no fashizumu. English
Title
Grassroots fascism : the war experience of the Japanese people / Yoshimi Yoshiaki ; translated and annotated by Ethan Mark.
ISBN
9780231165686
0231165684
9780231538596
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Physical Description
vi, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes
Translated from the Japanese.
Summary
"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"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 22, 2015
Series
Weatherhead books on Asia
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-327) and index.
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.
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