Peter Prewar Japan DUUS and Daniel I. Okimoto, in Journal of Asian Studies (Nov. 1979), Association for Asian Studies, 1 Lane Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109.
"Fascist," with its overtones of racism and repression, is a word often used to describe Japan just before World War 11. It is a word wrongly used, say Duus and Okimoto, Asia specialists at Stanford.
The mass movements, personality cults, and bloody purges that marked fascism in Germany, Italy, and Hungary...