TY - BOOK ID - 19366907 TI - Grassroots Fascism AU - Yoshimi, Yoshiaki, AU - Mark, Ethan PY - 2015 SN - 0231165684 1336184124 0231538596 9780231538596 9780231165686 9780231165693 0231165692 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Fascism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century. KW - Japan -- History -- 1926-1945 -- Biography. KW - Japan -- Politics and government -- 1926-1945. KW - World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area. KW - World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese. KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Fascism KW - J3384 KW - J4000.80 KW - J4015 KW - J4122 KW - Neo-fascism KW - Authoritarianism KW - Collectivism KW - Corporate state KW - National socialism KW - Synarchism KW - Totalitarianism KW - European War, 1939-1945 KW - Second World War, 1939-1945 KW - World War 2, 1939-1945 KW - World War II, 1939-1945 KW - World War Two, 1939-1945 KW - WW II (World War, 1939-1945) KW - WWII (World War, 1939-1945) KW - History, Modern KW - Campaigns KW - History KW - Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- Shōwa period -- World War II (1931-1945) KW - Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century KW - Japan: Social sciences in general -- right wing socio-political and socio-economic movements KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- nationalism KW - Japan KW - Politics and government KW - E-books KW - Nihon KW - Nippon KW - Iapōnia KW - Zhāpān KW - I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ KW - Yapan KW - Japon KW - Japão KW - Japam KW - Mư̄ang Yīpun KW - Prathēt Yīpun KW - Yīpun KW - Jih-pen KW - Riben KW - Government of Japan KW - 日本 KW - 日本国 KW - Nipponkoku KW - Nippon-koku KW - Nihonkoku KW - Nihon-koku KW - State of Japan KW - Япония KW - Japani KW - اليابان KW - al-Yābān KW - يابان KW - Yābān KW - Japonsko KW - Giappone KW - Japonia KW - Japonya KW - Fascism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century KW - Japan -- History -- 1926-1945 -- Biography KW - Japan -- Politics and government -- 1926-1945 KW - World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area KW - World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese KW - Jepun KW - Yapon KW - Yapon Ulus KW - I︠A︡pon KW - Япон KW - I︠A︡pon Uls KW - Япон Улс UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19366907 AB - Grassroots Fascism profiles the Asia Pacific War (1941–1945)—the most important though least understood experience of Japan's modern history—through the lens of ordinary Japanese life. Moving deftly from the struggles of the home front to the occupied territories to the ravages of the front line, the book offers rare insight into popular experience from the war's troubled beginnings through Japan's disastrous defeat in 1945 and the new beginning it heralded. Yoshimi Yoshiaki mobilizes personal diaries, memoirs, and government documents to portray the ambivalent position of ordinary Japanese as both wartime victims and active participants. He also provides equally penetrating accounts of the war experience of Japan's imperial subjects, including Koreans and Taiwanese. This book challenges the idea that the Japanese operated as a passive, homogenous mass during the war—a mere conduit for a military–imperial ideology imposed upon them by the political elite. Viewed from the bottom up, wartime Japan unfolds as a complex modern mass society, with a corresponding variety of popular roles and agendas. In chronicling the diversity of the Japanese social experience, Yoshimi's account elevates our understanding of Japan's war and “Japanese Fascism,” and in its relation of World War II to the evolution—and destruction—of empire, it makes a fresh contribution to the global history of the war. Ethan Mark's translation supplements the Japanese original with explanatory annotations and an in-depth analytical introduction, drawing on personal interviews to situate the work within Japanese studies and global history. ER -