Summary Of Japanese Fascism

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Before we delve into the complex structure of Fascism, one should understand some of the general features of the ideology. It has been taken into account that Fascism has evolved dramatically over the course of time. Looking back at the historical context, in the early 20th century, it has been associated with revolutionary politics. For William Ebenstein, fascism is a totalitarian organization of government and society by a single party dictatorship. Fascism is a popular movement and an ideology that was developed through time series of rebellions, revolutions, and war. Its political approach have become for the oppressed and for the selected. It pursues the interests of the people as one entity against the enemies and it allows the selected …show more content…

Japanese fascism’s existence was believed to be a pre-war product and result of the prevalent Imperial Japanese government in the 1930s. The Japanese stored and piled up weapons which caused its neighbouring countries to feel threatened. This can be associated with the theory of “Existentialism” which connotes that “states go to war when their existence are threatened.” Japan has been considered to be patriarchal, or the male being the dominant than the female. The nation has also been against Communism. Modern day scholars attributed Japanese Fascism in the pre-Showa Era. Japanese people then were purely nationalistic, militaristic, and imperialistic. On a global scale, the war against Japanese Fascism by China was the foremost anti-Fascist war, and the former being the German and Italian military intrusion to Spain in 1936 to 1939. The accusations of unequal ruling and social injustice sparked the move of China and its allies to fight …show more content…

Pitifully few, in the Philippines and even fewer elsewhere know that in Manila, in February 1945, World War II at its agonizing climax brought forth 100,000 burned, bayoneted, bombed, shelled, and shrapnel dead in the span of 28 days The devastation of Manila was one of the great tragedies of World War II. Seventy per cent of the utilities, 73 per cent of the factories, 80 per cent of the southern residential district, and 100 per cent of the business district were razed… Hospitals were sent afire after their patients had been strapped to their beds. The corpses of males were mutilated, females of all ages were raped before they were slain, and babies’ eyeballs gouges out and smeared on walls like

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