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Grassroots fascism : the war experience of the Japanese people / Yoshimi Yoshiaki ; translated and annotated by Ethan Mark.
LIBRA D811.A2 Y5913 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yoshimi, Yoshiaki, 1946- author.
- Series:
- Weatherhead books on Asia
- Standardized Title:
- Kusa no ne no fashizumu. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Japanese.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Fascism.
- History.
- Japan.
- Japan--History--1926-1945--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area.
- Fascism--Japan--History--20th century.
- Japan--Politics and government--1926-1945.
- Politics and government.
- Military campaigns.
- Political science.
- Pacific Area.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- Japanese.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231165686
- 0231165684
- OCLC:
- 892620155
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