Ultranationalism (Japan)

State ultranationalism[1] or simply ultranationalism (超國家主義 or 超国家主義, Chōkokkashugi; lit. "ultra-statism"),[2] refers mainly to the radical statist movement of the Shōwa period, but it can also refer to extreme Japanese nationalism before and after the Shōwa period.

State ultranationalists use the authority of the state/nation (国家) through Tennō as the focus of public loyalty.[1] Other Ikki Kita's "state socialism" or "national socialism" (国家社会主義) is a representative idea referred to as 超国家主義 in Japan.

Japanese liberal scholars, including Masao Maruyama, saw Japanese state ultranationalism as fascism and referred to it as "Emperor-system fascism" (天皇制ファシズム, Tennōsei fashizumu),[3][4] but Western scholars such as Roger Griffin and Robert Paxton believe it is not fascism.

  1. ^ a b Thomas R.H. Havens (March 8, 2015). Farm and Nation in Modern Japan: Agrarian Nationalism, 1870-1940. Princeton University Press. p. 319.
  2. ^ "超国家主義(読み)チョウコッカシュギ(英語表記)ultranationalism". kotobank.jp (in Japanese).
  3. ^ Kasza, Gregory (2006). Blamires, Cyprian; Jackson, Paul (eds.). World Fascism: A-K. ABC-CLIO. p. 353. ISBN 9781576079409.
  4. ^ Tansman, Alan (2009). The Culture of Japanese Fascism. Duke University Press. p. 5. ISBN 9780822390701.