This bold collection of essays demonstrates the necessity of understanding fascism in cultural terms rather than only or even primarily in terms of political st

This book examines a set of paintings produced in Japan during the 1930s and early 1940s that have received little scholarly attention. Asato Ikeda views the wo

In late 1945 local Japanese turned their energies toward creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to combat repression

In contrast to Euro-centric works on comparative fascism that set Japan apart from Germany and Italy, this book emphasizes parallels between Japan and its Axis

"The range of Alan Tansman's coverage is truly prodigious and diverse--from the most obscurantist cultural analysis through mawkish sentimentality and orchestra