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Imperial Japanese Statism
Shōwa nationalism · 1931–1945 · Japan · Militarist · Held state power · coding confidence medium
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
The emperor-centred national polity, military expansion in Asia, subordination of the individual to the state.
Economic model
Zaibatsu conglomerates under wartime state control, colonial extraction, forced labour.
Organisation of powers
Cabinet capture by the armed forces, dissolution of parties into a single association, thought police.
Reading note
Frequently called fascist; specialists more often describe it as militarist statism because it had no mass revolutionary party and no charismatic leader.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored +03
Coded +3: zaibatsu conglomerates under wartime state control.
- Documented act or statuteThe 1938 National Mobilisation Law placed industry, labour and prices under state direction.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored +10
At the ceiling: the emperor-centred national polity as the organising doctrine.
- Programme textKokutai no Hongi (1937) was distributed to every school as official doctrine.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +09
Coded +9: cabinet capture by the armed forces and parties dissolved into one association.
- Documented act or statuteParties dissolved themselves into the Imperial Rule Assistance Association in 1940.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +09
Coded +9: a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere directed from Tokyo.
- Documented act or statuteOccupied territories were administered by the Japanese military under central direction.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +10
At the ceiling: colonial subjects and occupied populations without rights.
- Documented act or statuteForced labour and the comfort women system operated across the occupied territories.
CH · Method and tempo · scored +04
Coded +4: assassination and coup attempts alongside constitutional forms.
- Documented act or statuteTwo prime ministers were assassinated in the 1930s and the February 1936 coup attempt was suppressed.
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Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
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