Statism in Shōwa Japan

Statism in Shōwa Japan was developed over a period of time, beginning in the Meiji Restoration. It’s also referred to as Shōwa Nationalism, or Japanese Fascism.

Background

This statist movement dominated Japanese politics during the first part of the Shōwa period (the reign of Hirohito). It was a mixture of ideas like Japanese nationalism, militarism, and state capitalism, that were proposed by a number of contemporary political philosophers and thinkers in Japan.

During the 1920s and 1930s, Japan was also visited by various members of European fascist parties, and in fact had small German and Italian communities in Tokyo and other parts of the main Japanese islands and the greater Japanese empire. Political theorists then added these European Fascist elements to conform their movement to one similar to these European style governments.

See also

• Imperial Japan
• Statism in Shōwa Japan
• Hirohito
• Shōwa