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The Search for a New Order: Intellectuals and Fascism in Prewar Japan

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The Search for a New Order: Intellectuals and Fascism in Prewar Japan - Fletcher III, William Miles
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Fletcher explains how three writers--Ryu Shintaro, Royama Masamichi, and Miki Kiyoshi--who were supporters of democratic socialism became ideologues for the East Asian bloc ideal that rationalized Japan's dominance of Asia after 1937, and he demonstrates how and why they designed the New Order movement of 1940. He concludes that the advocacy of fascism was a reasoned effort to respond to the ills of industrialization and the challenges of mobilization for war. Originally published in 1982. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- ...

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The Search for a New Order: Intellectuals and Fascism in Prewar Japan 1982, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9780807815144

Hardcover