TY - BOOK AU - Yoshimi,Yoshiaki AU - Mark,Ethan TI - Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People T2 - Weatherhead Books on Asia SN - 9780231165686 AV - D811.A2 Y5913 2015 U1 - 940.53/52 23 PY - 2015///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - Fascism KW - Japan KW - History KW - 20th century KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Personal narratives, Japanese KW - Personal narratives KW - Campaigns KW - Pacific Area KW - HISTORY / Asia / Japan KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; TRANSLATOR'S I NTRODUCTION : THE P EOPLE IN THE WAR --; 1. FROM DEMOCRACY TO FASCISM --; 2. GRASSROOTS FASCISM --; 3. THE ASIAN WAR --; 4. DEMOCRACY FROM THE BATTLEFIELD --; POSTSCRIPT --; NOTES --; INDEX --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Grassroots Fascism profiles the Asia Pacific War (1937-1945)-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 insights into popular experiences from the war's troubled beginnings through Japan's disastrous defeat in 1945 and the new beginning it heralded.Yoshimi Yoshiaki mobilizes diaries, letters, memoirs, and government documents to portray the ambivalent position of ordinary Japanese as both wartime victims and active participants. He also provides penetrating accounts of the war experiences of Japan's minorities and imperial subjects, including Koreans and Taiwanese. His book challenges the idea that the Japanese people operated as a mere conduit for the military during the war, passively accepting an 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 wartime Japanese social experience, Yoshimi's account elevates our understanding of "Japanese Fascism." 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 notes and an in-depth introduction that situates the work within Japanese studies and global history UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/yosh16584 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231538596 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231538596/original ER -