Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies

Collana | Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
Miscellanea | Itineraries of an Anthropologist
Capitolo | The Quest for Japanese Fascism: A Historiographical Overview

The Quest for Japanese Fascism: A Historiographical Overview

Abstract

‘Japanese fascism’ is a historiographical construct rather than a historical reality. Whether Japan’s sociopolitical developments in the 1930s and early 1940s can be legitimately and authoritatively defined as ‘fascist’ depends on the triangulation of three axes of analysis: historical reconstructions of institutional, political, social, and ideological processes; historiographical surveys of the palimpsest of interpretations historians have given to this period of Japanese history; and metahistorical analyses of the cognitive legitimacy of the category of ‘fascism’. This essay focuses on the second axis, offering a historical survey of the historiographical debate on ‘Japanese fascism’ worldwide.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 14 Gennaio 2021 | Accettato: 23 Febbraio 2021 | Pubblicato 18 Ottobre 2021 | Lingua: en

Keywords Japanese ImperialismHistoriographyJapanese FascismFascismSecond World War


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