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November 8, 2016

[SSJ: 9589] Japan History Group, ISS, University of Tokyo, 6 December 2016

From: Naofumi NAKAMURA
Date: 2016/11/08

The next meeting of the Japan History Group (JHG) at the Institute of Social Science (ISS),
University of Tokyo, will be held on Tuesday,6 December 2016, at 6:00 PM in Centre Meeting Room No.
549(Centre Kaigi-shitsu), 5th floor of the Akamon Research Building, Hongo Campus.

Presenter: Reto Hofmann (Waseda University・JSPS Research Fellow/Monash University・Lecturer)

Title: The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915-1952

Discussant: Ken Ishida (Chiba University ・ Professor)


Abstract:

Japanese activists, politicians, and intellectuals debated the question of fascism as part of a
wider effort to overcome a range of modern woes, including class conflict and moral degeneration,
through measures that fostered national cohesion and social order. But fascism in Japan was neither
a mere domestic product, nor a European import; it was, rather, the result of a complex process of
global transmission and reformulation. In this talk, I analyses the entanglement of fascism between
Japan and Italy. By drawing on examples from my recently published book, I show that fascism
conjured up a set of concrete associations, including nationalism, leadership, economics, and a
drive toward empire and a new world order. Ultimately, I argue that the ideology that developed in
interwar Japan cannot be seen in isolation but was part of wider, global history of fascism.


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Dr. Naofumi NAKAMURA
Professor of Business History
Institute of Social Science,
The University of Tokyo

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