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Showa Statism
「私たちの敵は天皇の敵です。」 ("Our enemies are the Emperor's enemies.")
Basic Information
Aliases	Showaism Showa Model Emperor Showa Thought (Debatably) Showa Nationalism Tōseiha Kōdōha Japanism Imperial Japanese Model Co-Prosperity Model Japanese Fascism Japanese Neo-Fascism Japanese-style Fascism Fascism with Japanese characteristics Japanese Ultranationalism Japanese Ultra-Militarism Japanese Imperialism Imperial Corporatism Japanese Monarcho-Fascism Emperor-System Fascism Japanese Clerical Fascism Shinto Fascism Japanese Chauvinism Fumimaro Konoe Thought Japanese War Criminal Japanese Alt-Right Japanese Right-Manosphere Weeb Fascism Tokio (sic) kid // Rapism
Alignment(s)	AuthUnity  Culturally Right Ethnonationalists  Fascists   Monarchists  Nationalists  Third Position  Ultranationalists Syncretic
Ideological Information
Influenced by:	Anti-Communism Anti-Liberalism Anti-Americanism Anti-Westernism Anti-Racism (Façade) Anti-Chinese sentiment (Reality) Anti-Korean Sentiment (Reality) Autotheism Imperial Cult Ethnonationalism Japanese Imperialism Meijiism Monarcho-Fascism System of irresponsibility Particracy Tekiseigo Kleptocracy Aristocracy Gunbatsu (de facto) Zaibatsu (de facto) Pan-Asianism Police Statism State Shinto Totalitarianism Ultranationalism Psychopathy Slavery
Influenced	Ikki Kita Thought Ilbe Storehouse Model (Some) Japanese Liberal Democracy (Some) Lee Teng Hui Thought Netto-uyoku Thai Fascism ZIGMA-ism Death Worship
Notable people	Japan Tōyama Mitsuru (1855-1944) Ikeda Shigeaki (1867-1950) Satokata Takahashi (1870-1945) Jirō Minami (1874-1955) Sadao Araki (1877-1966) Iwane Matsui (1878-1948) Shigeru Yoshida (1878-1967) Yōsuke Matsuoka (1880-1946) Kuniaki Koiso (1880-1950) Naoki Hoshino (1882-1978) Hayao Tada (1882-1948) Kenji Doihara (1883-1948) Shimoi Harukichi (1883-1954) Ikki Kita (1883-1937) Ichirō Hatoyama (1883-1959) Hachirō Arita (1884-1965) Yasuji Okamaura (1884-1966) Hideki Tōjō (1884-1948) Seishirō Itagaki (1885-1948) Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885-1946) Nobusuke Kishi (1886-1987) Matsutarō Shōriki (1885-1967) Shūmei Ōkawa (1886-1957) Seigō Nakano (1886-1943) Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (1887-1990) Shōjirō Iida (1888-1980) Kingoro Hashimoto (1890-1957) Fumimaro Konoe (1891-1945) Masahiko Amakasu (1891-1945) Takijirō Ōnishi (1891-1945) Hiroshi Nemoto (1891-1966) Shirō Ishii (1892-1959) Genki Abe (1894-1989) Isamu Chō (1895-1945) Inejirō Asanuma (1898-1960) (During WWII) Naosuke Tomita (1899-1979) Ryōichi Sasakawa (1899-1995) Imamura Hosaku (1900-1949) Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989) Masanobu Tsuji (1901-?) Eisaku Satō (1901-1975) Motoharu Okamura (1901-1948) Toshiaki Mukai (?-?) Tsuyoshi Noda (?-?) Yoshio Kodama (1911-1984) Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918-2019) Koichi Tsukamoto (1920-1998) Shintaro Abe (1924-1991) Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) Hisayuki Miyake (1930-2012) Shintaro Isihara (1932-2022) Haku Zynkyoku (1940-) Tarō Asō (1940-) Masahiko Tsugawa (1940-2018) Junichiro Koizumi (1942-) Yoshiko Sakurai (1945-) Yoshihide Suga (1948-) Shingo Nishimura (1948-) Satoru Mizushima (1949-) Shinzo Abe (1954-2022) Naoki Hyakuta (1956-) Ryuho Okawa (1956-2023) Shigeru Ishiba (1957-) Tomomi Inada (1959-) Sanae Takaichi (1961-) Makoto Sakurai (1972-) Toshiko Hasumi (1978-) Kotoe Hashimoto (1988-) Collaborators/ Foreign Sympathizers W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) USA Emilio Aguinaldo (1869-1964) Philippines Zhang Jinghui (1871-1959) Manchukuo Ibrahim Al-Masyhur (1873-1959) (Briefly) Johor, British Malaya Sisowath Monivong (1875-1941) Cambodia Oskar Trautmann (1877-1950) Germany Cường Để (1882-1951) Vietnam Jiang Kanghu (1883-1954) ROC Wang Jingwei (1883-1944) ROC Plaek Phibunsongkhram (1887-1964) Thailand Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) Jamaica Mahmut Muhiti (1887-1944) Xinjiang He Yingqin (1890-1987) ROC Kim Seong-su (1891-1955) South Korea Jose P. Laurel (1891-1959) Philippines Manuel Roxas (1892-1948) Philippines Chen Gongbo (1892-1946) ROC Ba Maw (1893-1977) Burma Subhas Chandra Bose (1897-1945) India Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) USA Zhou Fohai (1897-1948) ROC Luang Wichitwathakan (1898-1962) Thailand Ralph Townsend (1900-1976) USA Sukarno (1901-1970) Indonesia Ding Mocun (1901-1952) ROC Muhammad Amin Bughra (1901-1965) Xinjiang Ngô Đình Diệm (1901-1963) South Vietnam Demchugdongrub (1902-1966) Mongolia Lin Bosheng (1902-1946) ROC Jiang Shijun (?-) ROC Li Shiqun (1905-1943) ROC Puyi (1906-1967) Manchukuo Yoshiko Kawashima (Aisin-Gioro Xianyu) (1907-1948) Manchukuo Konstantin Rodzaevsky (1907-1946) Russia/ Manchukuo U Nu (1907-1995) Burma Gatot Soebroto (1907-1967) Indonesia Ne Win (1910-2002) Burma (Defected) Sarit Thanarat (1908-1963) Thailand Bo Hmu Aung (1910-2004) Burma (Defected) Thanom Kittikachorn (1911-2004) Thailand Ibrahim Yaacob (1911-1979) British Malaya Bảo Đại (1913-1997) Vietnam Aung San (1915-1947) Burma (Defected) Sudirman (1916-1950) Indonesia Park Chung-hee (1917-1979) South Korea Chung Il-kwon (1917-1994) South Korea Kyaw Zaw (1919-2012) Burma (Defected) Suharto (1921-2008) Indonesia Supriyadi (1923-?) Indonesia (Defected) Iwasato Masao (Lee Teng-hui) (1923-2020) ROC/Taiwan Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015) Singapore (Briefly) Jiang Zemin (1926-2022) China Birei Kin (1934-) Japan / Taiwan Chen Yi-chi (1972-) Taiwan Liu Zhongjing (1974-) China/ USA Fictional Emperor Yoshiro (Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3) Inspector Takeshi Kido (The Man In The High Castle) Akatsuki (Akatsuki Blitzkampf) Saburo Arasaka (Cyberpunk) Takeo Masaki (Call of Duty: Zombies)
Notable examples	IRL Empire of Japan (1926-1945) Empire of Manchukuo (1932-1945) Mengjiang United Autonomous Government (1939-1945) Wang Jingwei Regime (1940-1945) State of Burma (1943-1945) Second Philippine Republic (1943-1945) Azad Hind (1943-1945) Empire of Vietnam (1945) Kingdom of Kampuchea (1945) Kingdom of Luang Prabang (1945) Fictional Japanese Pacific States (The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick) Empire of the Rising Sun (Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3) Principality of Zeon (Mobile Suit Gundam, inspired) State of Guangdong (The New Order: Last Days of Europe) Amur (The New Order: Last Days of Europe) Sakura Empire (Azur Lane)
Variations
School of Thought	Neo-Showaism/Nippon Kaigi Anti-Progressivism Anti-LGBT+ Anti-Immigration Democratic Fascism Authoritarian Conservatism Japanese Liberal Democracy Maternalism National Capitalism Manosphere Right-Wing Populism Stratocracy Kōdōha/Sadao Araki thought Anti-Capitalism (most) Anti-Communism Anti-Corruption (self-proclaimed) Anti-Liberalism Ikki Kita Thought Japanese Chauvinism Monarcho-Fascism Northern Expansion Doctrine Reactionary Fascism State Shinto Totalitarianism Tōseiha/Tetsuzan Nagata Thought Anti-Communism Anti-Liberalism Anti-Reactionaryism Moderatism (in comparison to Kōdōha) Monarcho-Fascism National Capitalism Right-Reformism Totalitarianism Left-Showaism Anti-Capitalism Anti-Liberalism Anti-Americanism Anti-Racism (Self-Proclaimed) Anti-Westernism Buddhist Socialism Japanese Communism Left-Wing Nationalism National Bolshevism State Socialism Strasserism Tridemism Right-Showaism Alt-Right (Modern Day) Anti-Communism Anti-Dengism (Modern Day) Anti-Socialism Chiangism (Chinese Civil War, Cold War), , Colonialism Corporatocracy Ethnonationalism Ilminism (Cold War) Italian Fascism Japanese Liberal Democracy (Modern Day) Kleptocracy MacArthurism (After WWII) Monarcho-Fascism National Capitalism Neoconservatism (After WWII) Plutocracy Sinophobia Totalitarianism (1940-1945)
Regional Tendencies	Japanese Neo-Nazism/NSJWP Alt-Right Anti-Americanism Anti-Capitalism Anti-Communism Anti-Feminism Anti-Liberalism Anti-LGBT+ Anti-Immigration Anti-Progressivism Anti-Semitism Anti-Socialism Anti-Zionism Autarky Authoritarian Conservatism Corporatism Ikki Kita Thought (Self-proclaimed) Japanese Chauvinism Koryophobia Neo-Nazism Pan-Turanism Shogunate Restorationism Sinophobia Korean Showaism/Chinilpaism Alt-Right (Most) Anti-Communism Anti-Feminism (Most) Anti-Liberalism (Most) Anti-Progressivism Anti-Socialism Ethnic Self-Hatred (Most) Eugenicism (Some) Industrialism Opportunism (Chinilpa) Pseudohistory Radical Feminism (Some) Sinophobia (Most)
Personal Tendencies	Shūmei Ōkawa Thought Anti-Americanism Anti-Capitalism Anti-Colonialism (Self-Proclaimed) Anti-Democracy Anti-Liberalism Anti-Racism (Self-Proclaimed) Anti-Westernism Esoteric Fascism Gandhian Socialism (Sympathetic) Ikki Kita Thought Imperialism Islamic Theocracy (Sympathetic) Jingoism Kemalism (Sympathetic) Militarism Mediacracy Monarcho-Fascism Pan-Asianism Reactionary Fascism State Shinto Ultranationalism Yukio Mishima Thought/Tatenokai Anti-Americanism Anti-Capitalism Anti-Communism Anti-Democracy Anti-Globalism Anti-Humanism Anti-Individualism Anti-Westernism Aristocracy Batailleanism Collectivism D'Annunzianism Dostoyevskianism Heideggerianism Homofascism Imperialism Masochism Monarcho-Fascism Narcissism Nietzscheanism Progressive Fascism Revolutionary Nationalism Sadism State Shinto Stratocracy Taishō Romanticism Traditionalism Ultranationalism Ultraprogressive Reactionaryism
Character Information
Likes	裕仁天皇陛下 (Emperor Hirohito) Human experimentation War crimes Drug legalization Comfort Women Netouyos 大東亞共榮圈 (The Greater East-Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere) 樞軸國 (The Axis)
Dislikes	支那 (China) 朝鮮 (Korea) Getting nuked Being prosecuted for war crimes Communists 聯合國 (The Allies) 西洋帝國主義 (Western Imperialism)
Song	Tekken Kyoto Battotai The Kamikaze Corps Kimigayo Ode to Showa Restoration Empire Of The Sun Roei no Uta Hohei no Honryo Aikoku Koushinkyoku Nippon Rikugun Senbonzakura Ambushed Again (Call of Duty: World at War) I hate these classes Black Cats (Call of Duty: World at War) Rusty Cage - Japan Rap Kaisen Japan First ~Tatakau Senaka~ PlagueDemon

"The sword is our steel Bible!"

Sadao Araki

Showa Statism (also called Showa Nationalism), shortened Showaism, is a totalitarian, ethno-ultranationalist, culturally far-right, economically 3rd positionist (specifically favoring corporatism) and expansionist ideology, which was practiced and developed in Japan during the first half of the reign of Emperor Showa (at the time called Hirohito). Showa Statism was a political syncretism of monarchist and nationalist ideologies in Japan, which was inspired by Italian fascism..

History

Origins

Showa Statism's origins can be traced back to the Meiji Restoration. After the victory over China in the First Sino-Japanese War and over Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, Japan joined the Western powers. They needed a strong military to secure Japan's new overseas empire which was reinforced by a feeling that only through a strong military would Japan earn the respect of Western nations. The period where it was the most prominent was during the dawn of the Showa Period and throughout the Second World War. The first 20 years of Emperor Showa's reign it was characterized by extreme nationalism and a series of expansionist wars. It was a mixture of ideas such as Japanese nationalism, militarism, fascism (while disputed by some), and corporatism, that was initiated by several political philosophers and thinkers in Japan. Those philosophers include Ikka Kita, Shumei Okawa, and Sadao Araki. Many had different (sometimes outright contrasting) views, which is why Showa Statism could be described as ideologically syncretic.

The Rise of Militarism

Kōdōha Faction

The Kōdōha or the Imperial Way Faction was founded by were General Sadao Araki and his protégé, Jinzaburō Masaki. The Kōdōha was a radical faction, that sought to establish a military government that promoted totalitarian, militaristic, and aggressive expansionist ideas and was mostly supported by young officers. The Kōdōha was strongly supportive of the hokushin-ron ("Northern Expansion Doctrine") strategy of a preemptive strike against the Soviet Union, believing that Siberia was in Japan's sphere of interest; although there were supporters of the Northern Expansion in the Tōseiha, the faction largely favored a more cautious defense expansion. Both factions had struggled to gain influence over the military after the Manchurian Incident, however, the Kodoha remained dominant until the resignation of Sadao Araki due to illness, and the Kodoha would start to decline in its influence over the military. Araki was replaced by General Senjūrō Hayashi, who had Tōseiha sympathies. Thus, after the February 26 Incident, the Kōdōha effectively ceased to exist, and the Tōseiha lost most of its raison d'être.

The Righteous Army

A group of young IJA officers who supported the radical Kodoha. The young officers believed that the problems facing the nation were the result of Japan drifting from the kokutai (國體) (an amorphous term often translated as "national polity", it roughly signifies the relationship between the Emperor and the state). To them, the "privileged classes," exploited the people,(Almost all of the young officers' subordinates were from poor peasant families or working-class) leading to widespread poverty in rural areas, and deceiving the Emperor, taking his power and weakening Japan. The solution, they believed, was a "Shōwa Restoration" modeled on the Meiji Restoration of 70 years earlier. These beliefs were strongly influenced by contemporary nationalist thought, especially the political philosophy of Ikki Kita On February 26th, 1936, they would attempt a military coup with the goal of purging the government and military leadership of their factional rivals and ideological opponents.

Feburary 26th Incident (26-28 Feburary 1936)

The February 26th Incident (二・二六事件) was an attempted coup d'état in the Empire of Japan. It was organized by young officers known as the Righteous Army, who support the Kodo-ha, with the goal of bringing about the "Showa Restoration," purging their political opponents (particularly the Tosei-ha) and restoring direct rule under Emperor Showa (Hirohito). Although they managed to assassinate several leading officials and occupy the government center of Tokyo, they had failed to assassinate Prime Minister Keisuke Okada, secure control of the Imperial Palace, or get support from the Emperor. Their supporters in the army made attempts to capitalize on their actions, but divisions within the military, combined with anger at the coup, meant they were unable to achieve a change of government. Facing overwhelming opposition as the army moved against them, the rebels surrendered on 29 February. This resulted in the uprising being suppressed, the loss of Koda-ha factional influence, and the increase of military influence over the government.

Toseiha Faction

The Toseiha or the Control Faction was a political faction in the Imperial Japanese Army active in the 1920s and 1930s. The Tōseiha was created by Tetsuzan Nagata and Hideki Tōjō, a group of moderate officers united primarily because of their opposition to the radical Kōdōha faction and its aggressive imperialist and anti-modernization ideals. They were concerned that the Kōdōha would gain too much power and Araki's emphasis on the spiritual morale of the army instead of modernization and mechanization. Rather than the confrontational approach of the Kōdōha, which wanted to bring about the "Showa Restoration" through violence, the Tōseiha sought to reform by working within the already existing system. The Tōseiha saw that a future war would be a total war, and maximizing Japan's industrial and military capacity would require the cooperation of Japan's bureaucracy and the zaibatsu unions which the Kōdōha despised. The Toseiha rivaled the radical Kodoha for influence over the army until the Kodoha's de facto dissolved after the February 26th Incident, as for the Toseiha, became the dominant influence in the Japanese military but lost most of its raison d'être and gradually disbanded.

Totalitarian Period (1940-1945)

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Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere is a concept used to justify the Empire of Japan's imperialism. It promoted the cultural and economic unity of East Asians, Southeast Asians, South Asians, and Oceanians. It saw for its Pan-Asian ideals of freedom and independence from the control of western powers. In practice, it was often used by militarists and nationalists, who saw an effective way to strengthen Japan and advance its superiority within Asia.

Korea

From 1910 to 1945, Korea was ruled as a part of the Empire of Japan. Upon its annexation, Japan declared that Korea would be officially named Chōsen.

Taiwan

The island of Taiwan was once a part of the Qing Dynasty, however, was ceded to the Empire of Japan in 1895 after the Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese war. Taiwan was Japan's first colony and Japanese intentions were to turn Taiwan into a model colony with much effort made to improve Taiwan's economy, public works, industry, cultural Japanization, and to support the essentials of Japanese militarism in the Asia-Pacific.

Manchukuo

Manchukuo officially known as the State of Manchuria, also known as the Empire of (Great) Manchuria was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan from 1932 to 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria (On September 18th, 1931, they invaded Manchuria prior to the Mukden Incident. The war ended in 1932 and the Japanese established a puppet state of Manchukuo), and in 1934 it became a constitutional monarchy under the control of Japan. Puyi was the Emperor of Manchukuo and was formerly the last Emperor of China and the Qing Dynasty. Their occupation lasted until the success of the Soviet Union and Mongolia with the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation in August 1945.

Philippines

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India

The Provisional Government of Free India or, Azad Hind, was an Indian provisional government established in Japanese-occupied Singapore during World War II. Azad Hind was recognized as a legitimate state by only a small number of countries limited solely to Axis powers and their allies. This government participated as an observer in the Greater East Asia Conference in November 1943.

Burma

The State of Burma was a Japanese puppet state created by Japan in 1942 during the Japanese occupation of Burma in World War II. As the war situation gradually turned against the Japanese, the Japanese government decided that Burma and the Philippines would become fully independent as part of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, contrary to the original plan that independence only be granted after the completion of the war.

Thailand

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Vietnam

The Empire of Vietnam is a Japanese puppet state. Japan would invade Vietnam, which was originally a colony of France (Later under Vichy France) and was called French Indochina. The Imperial Japanese Army invaded Vietnam in September 1940 which would result in the Japanese occupation of French Indochina. The Japanese tendered an official apology for the incident at Lạng Sơn on 5 October 1940. The Japanese-occupied towns were returned to Vichy French control and all French prisoners were released. They would occupy French Indochina until 1945. When the Allies invaded France in 1944, Japan suspected that the French authorities in Indochina might assist Allied operations in the region. Therefore, Japan deposed the French authorities in the spring of 1945, imprisoning the French administrators and taking direct control of Indochina until the end of the war while took Kingdom of Kampuchea and Kingdom of Luang Phrabang under their direction. At that point, Vietnamese nationalists under the Viet Minh banner took control in the August Revolution and issued a Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The Japanese occupation of Indochina helped strengthen the Viet Minh and contributed to the outbreak of the First Indochina War in 1946 against French rule.

Malaysia and Singapore

British Malaya, which compromised the Straits Settlements, Federal Malay States and Unfederated Malay States was a British dependency in present-day Malaysia and Singapore. In December 1941, Japanese forces began their offensive via Kota Bharu and Songkhla, contrary to British estimates that the Japanese will attack Singapore first (which is proven by the construction of Fort Siloso in Sentosa Island, Singapore for that purpose). The British military attempted to launch a defensive naval force, which compromises of battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battle cruiser HMS Repulse, code-named "Task Force Z" which later failed followed by the sinking of both capital ships by Japanese aerial torpedo attacks. The defeat of Allied troops at the Battle of Jitra by Japanese forces, supported by tanks moving south from Thailand on 11 December 1941 and the rapid advance of the Japanese inland from their Kota Bharu beachhead on the north-east coast of Malaya overwhelmed the northern defenses and the Japanese gradually taking over the Malay Peninsula. During the Battle of Singapore, British and Australian forces, including the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army, Dalforce and the newly established Malay Regiment fought Japanese advances until their defeat on 15 February 1942. After the surrender of Singapore, Singapore was then renamed "Syonan" (昭南) while the northern states of Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan and Terengganu are later handed over to Thailand for a brief period of time alongside of the utilization of the ports in Singapore and Brunei as a naval base for the Imperial Japanese Navy until at the time of Japan's surrender in August 1945.

Indonesia

Indonesia was once a Dutch colony that was called the Dutch East Indies. The Japanese conquered the Dutch East Indies rather quickly, and their invasion of the Dutch East Indies would begin on 10 January 1942, and the Imperial Japanese Army overran the entire colony in less than three months. The Dutch surrendered on 8 March. Originally, most Indonesians welcomed the Japanese as liberators from their Dutch colonial masters. However, this would change as the Japanese recruited between 4 and 10 million Indonesians as forced laborers on economic development and defense projects in Java. In 1944–1945, Allied troops largely bypassed the Dutch East Indies and did not fight their way into the most populous parts such as Java and Sumatra. As such, most of the Dutch East Indies were under occupation at the time of Japan's surrender in August 1945.

Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China against the the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Theater of the Second World War. The start of the war is historically dated to the Marco Polo Bridge Incident on 7 July 1937, when a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops in Peking escalated into a full-scale invasion. It is not known who fired the first shots at this event. This war is often regarded as the start of the Second World War in Asia. Following the Marco-Polo Bridge Incident, the Japanese were able to score major victories such as capturing large cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and the Chinese capital of Nanjing in 1937. Prior to failing to stop the Japanese forces in the Battle of Wuhan, the Chinese government was relocated to Chongqing. While Japan ruled the large cities, it lacked the adequate manpower to control China's vast countryside.

The National Revolutionary Army under the command of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and other regional Warlords fought against the Japanese in 22 major battles. By 1939, after Chinese victories in Changsha and Guangxi, the war reached a stalemate. The war would end on September 2nd, 1945, resulting in the Japanese surrendering to the Allies.

After the war, the Chinese economy collapsed due to the lack of American foreign aid in the war, unlike most other counties like Britain, Free France, and the USSR. The inflation rate skyrocketed, and corruption became extremely rampant. The CPC after receiving the arms and munitions from the USSR, was able to take advantage of this and launched a major “offensive” after Japan surrendered and controlled 2/3 of the territories occupied by Japan. Many historians assess that this war destroyed the popularity and stability Nationalist Government and paved the way for the communist takeover as the communists made minimum efforts to resist Japan, but instead focused on expanding its troops to turn on the nationalists.

Beliefs

Due to the fact that Showa Japan was militarily allied with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and shared ideological similarities, Showa Statism is usually taken to be a type of Fascism, although this is disputed by some. Showa Statism is a syncretism of Japanese nationalist ideologies. Some believed to unify the Asian race under the sacred rule of the emperor, some believed it was their destiny to liberate Asia from Western powers. Showa Statism is anti-western, anti-liberal. anti-communist, and anti-capitalist.

Nationalism

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Religion

State Shinto, is the official religion of Japan from 1868 through World War II. It implemented the ideals of Shinto into a political system. State Shinto strongly encourage Shinto practices that emphasized the Emperor as a divine being.

Japanese Corporate State

Under the military, the country developed a very hierarchical, aristocratic economic system with significant state involvement. During the Meiji Restoration, there had been a surge in the creation of monopolies. This was in part due to state intervention, as the monopolies served to allow Japan to become a world economic power. The state itself owned some of the monopolies, and others were owned by the zaibatsu who were alligned with the state. The monopolies managed the central core of the economy, with other aspects being controlled by the government ministry appropriate to the activity, including the National Central Bank and the Imperial family. This economic arrangement was in many ways similar to the later corporatist models of European fascists.

Comparisons with European Fascism

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Militarism

Japanese militarism refers to the belief that militarism should control the political and social life of the nation, and that the strength of the military is the same as the strength of a nation.

Views on Race and Ethnicity

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Neo-Showaism

Nippon Kaigi

The Nippon Kaigi (日本會議, "Japan Conference") is an ultranationalist, militarist and historical revisionist non-government organization who seek to "change the postwar national consciousness based on the Tokyo Tribunal's view of history as a fundamental problem" and to revise Japan's current Constitution. Most of the members of Nippon Kaigi viewed the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan as their political partner, as the movement is influential in the legislative and executive branches of the Japanese government through its affiliates. They are critical of progressivism, especially having anti-feminist and anti-LGBT sentiments in general.

Japanese Fourth Theory

The name is because it wants to unite Asia under its beliefs. It is also there because of the Pan-Asianism it believes in. It does not mean Eurasianism or Dugin's specific ideology geared towards Russia. Ikki Kita can be considered a Japanese fourth positionist.

Netto-uyoku

The Netto-uyokus (網絡右翼, Japanese Internet rightists, sometimes shortened to Netouyo or ネトウヨ) are netizens who embrace ultranationalist far-right views on Japanese social media. The netto-uyoku are individuals with xenophobic and racist views and they generally convey support for historically revisionist views that portray the former Empire of Japan in a positive way. They are compared with the western Alt-Right due to their similarities

Tatenokai

Tatenokai, or Shield Society (1968-1970), was a private militia formed by author Yukio Mishima. Mishima was very proud of the traditional culture of Japan, and opposed western-style materialism. globalism, and communism, worrying that by embracing these ideas the Japanese people would lose their distinctive cultural heritage to become a "rootless" people. On 25 November 1970, Mishima and four members of his militia entered a military base in central Tokyo, took its commandant hostage, and unsuccessfully tried to inspire the Japan Self-Defense Forces to rise up and overthrow Japan's 1947 Constitution. After his speech and screaming of "Long live the Emperor!", he committed seppuku.

How to Draw

[!] Note: This flag can be considered shocking content in China, Taiwan and Korea. Be vary on this.

The flag of Showa Statism is based on the war flag of the Imperial Japanese Army, and therefore not to be mistaken with the ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces

Flag of Showa Statism

1. Draw a ball
2. Fill in with white
3. Draw a red circle in the middle
4. Add sixteen red beams radiating from the circle
5. Draw slanted eyes
6. (Optional) Draw a "Kanmuri", a Japanese hat worn by Japanese Emperors throughout history.

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	White	#FFFFFF	255, 255, 255
	Red	#B22D3D	178, 45, 61

Relationships

大東亞共榮圈 (Co-Prosperity Sphere)

• 帝國主義 - My father who taught me everything. Western imperialism is evil, Japanese imperialism is good!
• 帝國神道教 - Amaterasu wills it!
• 民族社會主義（ナチズム） - This whole axis thing sounds cool.
• 死の崇拜 - 皇帝のために死ぬことは永遠に生きることですよ！(TO DIE FOR THE EMPEROR IS TO LIVE FOREVER!!!)
• ファシズム - You guys fight for your glorious nation and hate America. 凄いね! (Sugoi!)
• 超國家主義 - 日本に榮光あれ！(GLORY TO JAPAN!)
• 天皇制ファシズム - 天皇陛下萬歲!!! (LONG LIVE THE EMPEROR!!!)
• 軍閥政治 - Our great military shall conquer liberate all of Asia!!!
• 財閥政治 - Zaibatsu go brrr.
• 大亞細亞主義 - ASIA FOR ASIANS! We must liberate all of Asia from Western imperialism and put them under new management of course.
• オルタナ右翼 / 網絡右翼 - Thanks for defending me online!
• インセル - Same as above, plus the "right to sex" thing sounds attractive...
• 天竺教 - Thanks for speaking out in defense of our guys, Radhabinod Pal.
• 國立正教會 - We will resist White Imperialism together!! Sorry for not being able to help you.

中立 (Neutral)

• マルクス・レーニン主義 (Pre-1945) - Soviet trash, get ready to be pwned! (Although, thank you for the neutrality pact!)
• シオニズム - I'm a great ally to him but my Fugu plan will keep you safe. So I can learn your secrets.
• シルバーレジオニズム - You have the right idea, but you're a filthy American!
• 日本自民黨 - Well it could be far worse...
• 一民主義 - A great student of ours! Though Chōsen is Japanese.
• 主體思想 - Why are you me but communist?!?!
• 浅沼 稲次郎 - A bit too commie and my rightist factions hated you, but you were a good carrier of my ideas after the war.

西洋帝國主義のスカム (WESTERN IMPERIALIST SCUM)

• 部族主義 と 先住民主義 - Ainu and Ryukyuan scum.
• 新保守主義 - American scum.
• ニューディール主義 - YOU KILLED JAPANESE PEOPLE AND NUKED ME! TWICE!
  • You shot first, so suffer the consequences.

• 反日亡國論 - Traitor to our people that wants to stop Asia’s subjugation liberation!
• 三民主義 & 毛澤東思想 - MARUTAAAAAA THAT GOES FOR YOU TOO! STOP RESISTING! But at least the former slightly warmed up to me after the war.
• 日本のマルクス主義 - You are a threat to the Emperor! You shall be banned!
• 自由女權主義 - Rape culture? Never happened. But sounds epic.
• 無政府共產主義 - REEEEEEEE GET OUT OF MANCHURIA!
• マルクス・レーニン主義 (post-1945) - COMMUNIST RAT!

Further Information

Literature

• The US, not Japan, was the aggressor By Moteki Hiromichi,
• An American Speaks: The Japanese History That Some Want Hidden by Max von Schuler
• The Japanese Colonial Legacy in Korea, 1910–1945: A New Perspective by George Akita and Brandon Palmer
• Black Radicalism’s Complex Relationship with Japanese Empire by Mohammed Elnaiem

Wikipedia

• Showa Statism
• Showa
• Empire of Japan
• Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
• Showa nationalist propaganda
• List of Japanese political figures in the Showa period
• Nippon Kaigi
• Netto-uyoku
• Japanese war crimes
• Comfort women
• Second Sino-Japanese War
• Tōhōkai

Videos

• Imperial Japan: The Fall of Democracy by Kraut
• Playing the Victim | Historical Revisionism and Japan by Knowing Better
• THE AXIS CAUSE: IN DEFENSE OF IMPERIAL JAPAN by The Endwarkment
• AMERICA IS GUILTY: WHY JAPAN DECLARED WAR by The Endwarkement

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