Foreword: Fascism, Yet? / Marilyn Ivy  vii

Introduction: The Culture of Japanese Fascism / Alan Tansman  1

Part I: Theories of Japanese Fascism  

Fascism Seen and Unseen: Fascism as a Problem in Cultural Representation / Kevin M. Doak  31

The People's Library: The Spirit of Prose Literature versus Fascism / Richard Torrance  56

Constitutive Ambiguities: The Persistence of Modernism and Fascism in Japan's Modern History / Harry Harrotunian  80

Part II: Fascism and Daily Life  

On the Beauty of Labor: Imagine Factory Girls in Japan's New World Order / Kim Brandt  115

Mediating the Masses: Yanagi SMetsu and Fascism / Noriko Aso  138

Fascism's Furry Friends: Dogs, National Identity, and the Purity of Blood in 1930s Japan / Aaron Skabelund  155

Part III: Exhibiting Fascism  

Narrating the Nation-ality of a Cinema: The Case of Japanese Prewar Film / Aaron Gerow  185

All Beautiful Fascists?: Axis Film Culture in Imperial Japan / Michael Baskett  212

Architecture for Mass-Mobilization: The ChkreitM Memorial Design Competition, 1939-1945 / Akiko Takenaka  235

Japan's Imperial Diet Building in the Debate over Construction of a National Identity / Jonathan M. Reynolds  254

Expo Fascism?: Ideology, Representation, Economy / Angus Lockyer  276

The Work of Sacrifice in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Bride Dolls and the Enigma of Fascist Aesthetics at Yasukuni Shrine / Ellen Schattschneider  296

Part IV: Literary Fascism  

Fascist Aesthetics and the Politics of Representation in Kawabata Yasunari / Nina Cornyetz  321

Disciplining the Erotic-Grotesque in Edogawa Ranpo's Demon of the Lonely Isle / Jim Reichert  355

Hamaosociality: Narrative and Fascism in Hamao ShirM's The Devil's Disciple / Keith Vincent  381

Literary Tropes, Rhetorical Looping, and the Nine Gods of War: "Fascist Proclivities" Made Real / James Dorsey  409

Part V: Concluding Essay  

The Spanish Perspective: Romancero Marroqu�nd the Francoist Kitsch Politics of Time / Alejandro Yarza  435

Contributors  451

Marilyn Ivy

Alan Tansman

Kevin M. Doak

Richard Torrance

Harry Harootunian

Kim Brandt

Noriko Aso

Aaron Skabelund

Aaron Gerow

Michael Baskett

Akiko Takenaka

Jonathan M. Reynolds

Angus Lockyer

Ellen Schattschneider

Nina Cornyetz

Jim Reichert

Keith Vincent

James Dorsey

Alejandro Yarza

“So can a volume focused on the cultural aspects of a primarily political concept succeed? Yes, indeed. This book offers a wealth of fresh information on the era of fascism in Japan, ranging from the ‘high road’ of intellectual history and literary studies to more accessible insights on the role of dogs and propaganda lies about Pearl Harbour. . . . [An] excellent study of fascist Japan.” —Lawrence Fouraker, Itinerario

“[T]he essays in this collection provide informative perspectives on topics such as literature, film, architectural design, exhibitions and popular culture. . . .”—Roger Brown, Social Science Japan Journal

“Alan Tansman deserves tremendous credit for bringing together this multidisciplinary group of scholars to deal with an issue conspicuously neglected by the majority of scholars in Japan studies. . . . The publication of this insightful set of essays in this volume is without question an important contribution to our understanding of a culture of Japanese fascism as a local manifestation of a truly international political and cultural phenomenon.”—Walter Skya, Journal of Japanese Studies

“This volume will prove to be a pathbreaking collection of essays on how we think of Japanese fascism. . . . [A] very powerful contribution to the relationship between aesthetics, culture, and fascism.”—Bill Mihalopoulos, Journal of World History

“So can a volume focused on the cultural aspects of a primarily political concept succeed? Yes, indeed. This book offers a wealth of fresh information on the era of fascism in Japan, ranging from the ‘high road’ of intellectual history and literary studies to more accessible insights on the role of dogs and propaganda lies about Pearl Harbour. . . . [An] excellent study of fascist Japan.” —Lawrence Fouraker, Itinerario

“[T]he essays in this collection provide informative perspectives on topics such as literature, film, architectural design, exhibitions and popular culture. . . .”—Roger Brown, Social Science Japan Journal

“Alan Tansman deserves tremendous credit for bringing together this multidisciplinary group of scholars to deal with an issue conspicuously neglected by the majority of scholars in Japan studies. . . . The publication of this insightful set of essays in this volume is without question an important contribution to our understanding of a culture of Japanese fascism as a local manifestation of a truly international political and cultural phenomenon.”—Walter Skya, Journal of Japanese Studies

“This volume will prove to be a pathbreaking collection of essays on how we think of Japanese fascism. . . . [A] very powerful contribution to the relationship between aesthetics, culture, and fascism.”—Bill Mihalopoulos, Journal of World History

“These rich and varied essays provide a fascinating, if unsettling, depiction of the seductive appeal of fascist culture. They also show how much Japan shared with Europe in its aesthetic responses to the crisis of modernity in the interwar years. An important contribution in every respect.”—Carol Gluck, Columbia University

“An extremely provocative and stimulating collection of essays, The Culture of Japanese Fascism canvasses a wide array of cultural forms—movies, novels, religious rites, material culture, monuments, and architecture—to show the ways that fascist aesthetics saturated a dispersed cultural field. By focusing on thought and culture, it helps us rethink the turn from modernism to fascism, to understand fascism’s effects on everyday life, and to reconsider the reigning conceptions of fascist ideology.”—Louise Young, author of Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism

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