The media goes apeshit at Nazi Germany/Fascist Italy, but what was WW2 Japan's politics like?

submitted by radicalcentristNational Centrism from self.debatealtright

I find it a little funny that whenever the topic of "far-right" is invoked by the mainstream media, the go to examples are always National Socialist Germany, or Mussolini's Italy. And a lot of time and energy is put into calling them "evil".

But Japan was also a major player of WW2, and they were also the last country to surrender to the Allied powers. Yet we never hear the same epithets being thrown around if someone wishes to idolize Imperial Japanese culture.

So what exactly made their society different or special? Especially in non war related things like economy, education, standards of living, media etc.

My preliminary understanding of WW2 Japan is that they were clearly Nationalist. Race was also pretty central to their society, since Japan envisioned a world where they would be the ultimate leaders of Asia, and ironically, they still are to this day.

Their actual government structure had the Emperor as head of state, but it was also set up so that there was a Prime Minister (Hideki Tojo) and I've heard he was the one who actually took most of the blame for how Japan acted during WW2? I was always confused by this power structure. It's basically Monarchism combined with a Parliament that was controlled by the military? Someone correct me if wrong.

Japan's economic system I'll admit, I never really looked much into it. But they seemed to have been Capitalist or Third Position?

There's a lot more I would like to know, and even compare any racial differences to how Asians approached far-right politics compared to how the Germans & Italians did it in Europe.

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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The simple answer is they aren't White. Looking at the actions of Jews it should be immediately obvious that they see White people as their greatest enemy and the main target they want to destroy. They dedicate most of their time focusing on demonizing and propagandizing White people even when they are the most unaware of their power. They are perfectly happy with building relationships with other non white groups that are more likely to personally harm and kill them which says a lot. This could be because of European history with Jews or it is a coincidence of history that they took over White countries first. Maybe in the hypothetical future where Whites are no longer a threat they will target their cross hairs on groups that could potentially take power away from them like Asians. When they hear non Whites talk about Jews they don't care as much because they don't see them as a threat.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

As far as I'm aware, Mussolini wasn't antisemitic. He may have collaborated with Hitler, but in his own country, Jews weren't looking to be persecuted by the state.

Despite this though, "fascism" still gets slandered with links to genocide, even though Italy was less brutal than Imperial Japan was in war time.

[–]shilldetector 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He just gave you the answer to your question. The Japanese aren't white, aren't seen as threats or serious rivals. As for Mussolini, he was a close ally of Hitler, who is viewed as Satan incarnate.

So there you go, glad we could help clear this up for you. You're welcome.

[–]YJaewedwqewqClerical Fascist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Mussolini and Hitler were White.

The Japanese, afaik, didn't need to do a whole lot since a lot of the ideas generally thought of as "far right" that they believed in were already present within the country in some capacity. Unlike Germany there wasn't a ton of unchecked degeneracy, at least not that I'm aware of.