Grassroots fascism : the war experience of the Japanese people = Kusa no ne no fashizumu : Nihon minshu no senso taiken / Yoshiaki Yoshimi ; Ethan Mark, translator.
"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.
| Uniform Title: | Kusa no ne no fashizumu. English |
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Weatherhead books on Asia.
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| Physical Description: | vi, 347 pages . |
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Kusa no ne no fashizumu [Parallel title] |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction by translator: The people in the war / by Ethan Mark
- 1. From democracy to fascism
- Part I. Hopes and misgivings regarding the war
- Part II. The people's war
- Part III. On the battlefields of China
- 2. Grass-roots fascism
- Part I. The roots of fascism
- Part II. The agents and receptors of fascism
- Part III. The situation of the Japanese in the occupied areas
- Part IV. Departing for and journeying to the front in the Asia-Pacific war
- Part V. Ranking the people
- 3. The Asian war
- Part I. The illusion of Indonesia
- Part II. Burma's meteor shower
- Part III. In the Philippine countryside
- Part IV. Back on the China front
- 4. Democracy from the battlefield
- Part I. Fascism developing cracks
- Part II. Overcoming the collapse of the state
- Postscript.