This bold collection of essays demonstrates the necessity of
understanding fascism in cultural terms rather than only or even
primarily in terms of political structures and events. Contributors
from history, literature, film, art history, and anthropology
describe a culture of fascism in Japan in the decades preceding the
end of the Asia-Pacific War. In so doing, they challenge past
scholarship, which has generally rejected descriptions of pre-1945
Japan as fascist. The contributors explain how a fascist ideology
was diffused throughout Japanese culture via literature, popular
culture, film, design, and everyday discourse. Alan Tansman's
introduction places the essays in historical context and situates
them in relation to previous scholarly inquiries into the existence
of fascism in Japan.
Several contributors examine how fascism was understood in the
1930s by, for example, influential theorists, an antifascist
literary group, and leading intellectuals responding to capitalist
modernization. Others explore the idea that fascism's solution to
alienation and exploitation lay in efforts to beautify work, the
workplace, and everyday life. Still others analyze the realization
of and limits to fascist aesthetics in film, memorial design,
architecture, animal imagery, a military museum, and a national
exposition. Contributors also assess both manifestations of and
resistance to fascist ideology in the work of renowned authors
including the Nobel-prize-winning novelist and short-story writer
Kawabata Yasunari and the mystery writers Edogawa Ranpo and Hamao
Shirō. In the work of these final two, the tropes of sexual
perversity and paranoia open a new perspective on fascist culture.
This volume makes Japanese fascism available as a critical point of
comparison for scholars of fascism worldwide. The concluding essay
models such work by comparing Spanish and Japanese fascisms.
"Contributors." Noriko Aso, Michael Baskett, Kim Brandt, Nina
Cornyetz, Kevin M. Doak, James Dorsey, Aaron Gerow, Harry
Harootunian, Marilyn Ivy, Angus Lockyer, Jim Reichert, Jonathan
Reynolds, Ellen Schattschneider, Aaron Skabelund, Akiko Takenaka,
Alan Tansman, Richard Torrance, Keith Vincent, Alejandro Yarza
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