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 extreme ideologies in Japan, which developed over time after the Meiji Restoration, when Japan overthrew the previous Tokugawa Shogunate.
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.
"Showa" is the longest-used era name in Japanese history, spanning 64 years, from December 25, 1926 to January 7, 1989.
In the early Showa era, the liberal civil rights and Europeanization of the Taisho era were inherited, and the idea of a constitutional monarchy, such as the "Emperor's Organ Theory," was still the accepted constitutional doctrine of the Japanese bureaucracy, followed by fascism caused by various events, and then the familiar militaristic takeover of Japan.
With the defeat of Japan, the U.S. military entered Japan and began post-war democratization - note that this was the middle of the Showa era! After that, it was officially counted in the late Showa period, when Japan's population exceeded 100 million, China and Japan established diplomatic relations, Tokyo Disneyland opened, the economic bubble began, and finally the Showa ended and Heisei began.
It can be seen that the Showa era in Japan has changed so much and spanned so much that almost all people of opinion can draw something from it to find examples for their own parables. Trying to use "Showa" to define the behavior of any sovereign state at the moment is the same as using any past political concept to define the behavior of a sovereign state at the moment, which is in essence a kind of logical laziness and discourse speculation that is trapped in the existing paradigm of discourse.
In the mainstream context of using "Showa" as an adjective, the default is the old Japanese empire of pre-fascism and militarism. Its essence is the panic of the changes in the world and the lack of ownership of the six gods, and regards the past gambling as a life-saving straw. Instead of actively analyzing and opening up new situations, we are obsessed with past successes.
But even the old Japanese Empire, in the era of fascism and militarism, had many essential differences from the world today.
After World War II, many Japanese scholars analyzed the old Japanese empire in the era of fascism and militarism, among which Maruyama Mao was one of the best. Maruyama is one of the most outstanding political philosophers of the postwar period.
Analysis
First of all, the move of a country towards Fascism is divided into two stages. The first stage was fascism as a movement, and in Japan it was from the 918 Incident to the 226 Incident. The second stage is that Fascism and state institutions have become one, from the beginning of the 226 incident to the end of World War II. Although the absolutism and militarism of fascism in the second stage reached its highest form at the same time, most of the famous fascist events in our impression appeared in the first stage: such as the September 18 Incident, the May 15 Incident, and the February 26 Incident. Why is the sense of "Showa" stronger at this stage? Because fascism as a movement aims to trumpet fascist ideology. These events are almost always "bottom-up", also known as "bottom-up". And by the second stage, fascism has merged with the state apparatus and has become a "top-down" state policy, which naturally does not need to be hyped up like a movement.
Without fascism falling from the sky, all fascism must have gone through the stage of movement. So, it is more critical for us to study how the old Japanese empire went to fascism.
First of all, the Japanese fascist movement certainly had the same ideological elements as European fascism such as Germany and Italy:
1. Reject individualistic worldviews and oppose liberal political expressions
2. Advocate external expansion, arms expansion and war
3. Emphasize national mythology and national quintessence
4. The rejection of the class struggle under totalism, especially against Marxism
This is also the problem of Fascism, which is only denied but has no solution. Fascist theoreticians in various countries have concentrated their main theories on the spiritual realm, and have never dared to face the fundamental contradictions of the social structure like Marxism. Fascism only requires people to change in their brains, in their ideas, but not in the structure of reality. So even though fascism had anti-capitalist overtones in the early days, the result was that all fascist states ended up being instruments in the service of monopoly capital.
However, the fascist movement in Japan was even more special, and Germany and Italy did not think that Japan was the same kind of fascism as them, nor did Japan think that its own fascist movement was the same as these two predecessors.
1. Ideological characteristics
First of all, the fascist movement in Japan has a very strong familial tendency. The trait of the structure of the old Japanese empire is that it is an extension of the family. That is, the family state composed of the royal family as the head of the family and its "children and grandchildren". This is not only an abstract concept, but also a reality that tells the Japanese people that the Japanese nation has always maintained an ancient blood society as a historical fact. The concept of the family state has been around since the Meiji Restoration in Japan. However, the slogan of "national system" emphasized by the fascist movement was the most thorough implementation of this ideology. This also reflects the difference between Japanese fascism and Germany and Italy: Japanese fascism is "top-down", while European fascism is generally "bottom-up". The "bottom-up" movement of the first stage of the fascist movement in Japan actually failed in the later stages. Hitler was the head of state, while the emperor was the patriarch of the country. Compared with Hitler and others in Nazi Germany, the main leaders of the Japanese fascists were almost all well-educated upper-class people in society. They always try to think of themselves as the dads of all the people of Japan. This contrasts with the attempts of the Tsars of the Russian Empire to give themselves the sanctity of the Orthodox Church.
The second characteristic is that the Japanese fascist movement has a particularly serious agrarian mentality. This idea focuses in particular on local rural autonomy and inhibits the growth of urban industrial productivity. Fascism, which was supposed to be in full swing, was the opposite, strengthening state power and industrializing production. As a result, in Japan, there was a miraculous phenomenon: on the one hand, the absolutist state power centered on the emperor was being strengthened, and on the other hand, the center of ideas was shifted from the state to the countryside. For example, even Okawa Shuaki, who is deeply influenced by Western Europe, advocated in the program of his organization "Xingjisha":
It is necessary to eliminate the capitalist economic policy of industry and commerce, which is imitated by the worship of foreign diseases, and establish an agrarian policy of industrial statehood.
From centralization to decentralization, from parliamentary centers to autonomous centers, and from urban areas to rural revitalization.
Therefore, from the beginning to the end, Japanese fascism has highlighted a complex, even twisted, form, and has always had an inherent tendency to be anti-urban, anti-industrial, and anti-centralized. It can be said that the Japanese fascists have shattered the original theory of the fascists and turned it into something similar to a utopia.
We can also see this characteristic in the participants of the first phase of the fascist movement in Japan. Most of these radical army generals came from small and medium-sized landlords or peasants. In 1930, Japan began to catch up with the agricultural panic, which made it even more difficult for farmers to survive. And the essence of the old Imperial Japanese Army was the peasantry. This is the clearest reflection of the social basis of radical fascism. Poverty in the countryside has given the Army a major pretext for advancing into the political realm.
And as mentioned above, there is a clear contradiction between this Fascism of the agrarian consciousness and the demands of reality. Fascism demanded the expansion of armaments and changed the national economy to be dominated by military supplies. This resulted in the fact that Japanese fascism was destined to be a tragedy for ordinary Japanese. In the end, the government of the old Japanese empire did not succeed in resolving this contradiction, and could only try to cover it up by relying on constant conceptual motivational speeches and seriousness.
Another characteristic of this was that the Japanese fascists despised the workers very much. In the pamphlet "Promoting National Defense and Its Strengthening" (Showa 9, 1934), a pamphlet that reflected the ideology of the Japanese military department, it was stated that "the biggest problem for the people's lives at the moment is to save the countryside, forests, and fishing villages." This shows that in the eyes of Japanese fascism, the class of proletariat, represented by the workers, is not important. Therefore, in wartime, even compared with Nazi Germany, the welfare of Japanese workers could not be less.
In the Japanese fascist leadership, there was not only contempt for the workers, but also a pessimism: the factory workers were inferior to the peasants in the countryside. When Hideki Tojo was a land minister, he thought that workers were inferior to the children of the countryside in terms of physical fitness and mental state. But Tojo did not take into account the poor living conditions and poor wages in the factories of the old Japanese Empire. This vicious circle made the fascist leadership pay less and less attention to the workers, especially the poor treatment of the recruits, as if it were taken for granted. This is also a reaction of agricultural consciousness.
2. Characteristics of movement patterns
Unlike the Nazis in Germany, the Japanese fascist movement never cared about organizing mass participation. The participants of the fascists used a sense of "aspirants" to restrain the popularization of the fascist movement, always thinking that a few people would die to open up the future. In this sense, the fascist movement in Japan was an "idealistic" movement similar to the idea of a minority, and it was completely indifferent to mobilizing and organizing the masses. This is precisely combined with the illusory, conceptual and unplanned characteristics of the Japanese fascist movement.
The so-called mythical optimism of sabotage and then all of them has always dominated the radical Japanese fascist movement. At that time, Inoue Hichiru, the central figure of the rightist group Blood League, said: "I think it is better not to have a systematic thinking, and I go beyond the rules and act on my instincts. "So a lot of things that we learn about this history now feel strange and wrong, and that's normal, because the participants themselves don't have any specific reasons to describe what they're doing. Another participant, Lieutenant Koga, said at the court trial:
"We first think about destruction, we don't want to be builders, anyway, as long as we destroy it, someone will always build it."
I don't know if the meteorite that hit the earth in the age of dinosaurs thought the same thing.
This ideology is the biggest difference between the Japanese fascists and the German Nazis: the Japanese fascists completely deny democracy, and the participants in these movements do not think about the ideas of ordinary people and any masses at all, but only themselves. We all know that Nazi democracy in Germany is a fake democracy, but in the eyes of the Nazis they are the real German democracy, and Weimar democracy is goldenism. The Nazis needed democracy to dress up their dictatorial political theories, showing that democracy was deeply entrenched in Germany. And the Japanese fascists, they don't need these at all.
From this, we can see that the fascism of Japan in the early days of "Showa" was due to the special environment and historical reasons of Japan at that time. Trying to use the complex word "Showa" to describe the totality of a country is lazy and ignorant.
Therefore, even if it is based on the perception of Showa from the perspective of the Chinese, its summary should be that the world is like chess, and the game is new. Indulging in past gambling successes and developing a path dependence on gambling will lead to dire consequences. We should not simply regard "Showa" as an increase in armaments, or go up to brush up on the stalk when we see that there are different opinions among the people. And if you think that Showa = betting on the fortune of the country, then naturally you can't think of Showa = expansion, because the form of betting on the fortune of the country is not just expansion. For example, Chamberlain's appeasement of Germany, Stalin's belief that the German army would not attack in 1941, can also be regarded as a "Showa" act in the Chinese context. If we want to use the same metaphor, can we still say that a certain king who understands "will not do this" and "will not do that" is itself an act of gambling on the "Showa" of the country's fortunes? Just as the so-called others are not fools, every victory means that the effect of their means of winning is reduced. It may even be targeted, which can be the main reason for the next failure.
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 extremist 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.
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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.
Zaibatsu oligopoly
The military often criticized political parties under a liberal democracy and the complicity of the politicians with the zaibatsu corporate monopolies. The military and zaibatsu favored the state controlling the market, to reduce the attraction of leftist ideologies like communism and socialism. This led to the rise of monopolies being formed during the Meiji Restoration, and some of those monopolies were owned by the state itself and the zaibatsus. This economic arrangement was in ways similar to the Corporatocracy model.
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
Draw a ball
Fill in with white
Draw a red circle in the middle
Add sixteen red beams radiating from the circle
Draw slanted eyes
(Optional) Draw a "Kanmuri", a Japanese hat worn by Japanese Emperors throughout history.
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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!
↑Hostile language is a social movement and censorship that emerged as part of the growing nationalism (nationalism, Japanism) and national control during the protracted China Incident and in the run-up to the Pacific War. Some movements arose spontaneously from private groups and neighborhood associations, while others were censored or guided by law by the Japanese Government (e.g. Ministry of Education and Ministry of Home Affairs).
↑Refers to Showaists and foreign sympathizers with socialist views and genuinely motivated by Pan-Asianism and opposition to Western imperialism
↑Refers to Japanese Showaists and foreign collaborators that were inspired by European colonialism and collaborated with the US and Chiang Kai-shek's KMT during the Cold War e.g. Nobusuke Kishi, Masanobu Tsuji, Yoshio Kodama, Matsutarō Shōriki, Yasuji Okamura, Hiroshi Nemoto, Ryochi Sasakawa, etc.
↑https://www.bitchute.com/video/6R3kd7pPyZGb/, https://www.bitchute.com/video/6D75abaexy2J/https://fascio.substack.com/p/north-korea-the-truth-about-juche
these video explains juche ideology and its relation to japan, "It is worth noting that many fail to mention the fact that Imperial Japanese Korean collaborators played a foundational role in the early Korean Worker's party and the development of its doctrine, despite the party's superficial anti-Japanese rhetoric. While the United States executed Japanese collaborators in South Korea, Joseph Stalin, instead of punishing them, granted them prominent positions within the North Korean regime. They became instrumental in shaping the Juche ideology, which, at its core, bears resemblance to Imperial Japan's ideology. This occurred at a time when General Douglas MacArthur denied Japanese collaborators any influence in their own country, Korea. The Japanese Korean collaborators had more influence in North Korea than their counterparts in the South.
Historian Cho Kwan Ja remarked that these collaborators considered themselves "pro-Japanese Korean nationalists," exemplified by figures like dancer and actress Choi Seung-Hee. One notable ethnic Japanese individual involved in the creation of North Korea was Osamu Hatanaka, an intelligence officer in the Japanese Army. Hatanaka was considered one of Kim Il Sung's aides and a close friend of Kim Chaek. There are even allegations that Hatanaka governed North Korea in its early years.
B. R. Myers, in his book The Cleanest Race, suggests that the ideology of Juche bears closer resemblance to Imperial Japanese Fascism than Communism. The military is portrayed as a classless entity, acting as the synthesis of the people with the supreme leader, akin to the traditional emperor worship in Japan. Juche positions the supreme leader as a divine entity and the symbol of the state and unity of the people, similar to the aspirations of Japanese National Socialist theoretician Ikki Kita, who advocated for the synthesis of the masses with the Emperor."
Kōdōha Faction
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
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.
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 
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