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In this next chapter of the Making of Modern Japan series, I introduce the origins and intricacies of Japanese fascism, a unique ideological project that emerged in the tumultuous 1920s. I also introduce the three future war criminals released by General Charles Willoughby in 1948, and exemplify how these three figures played a prominent role in Japan’s wartime state. Nobusuke Kishi, grandfather to Shinzo Abe and soon to be economic manager of Manchukuo. Yoshio Kodama, Japan’s top post-war fixer and intermediary between the Yakuza and ultranationalist circles. And finally Ryoichi Sasakawa, a right wing businessman who started one of Japan’s first truly fascist political organizations.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Alec Dubro & David Kaplan - Yakuza p. xv, 40-51
Dan Kurzman - Kishi and Japan: The Search for the Sun p. 24-60 73-84, 93-95, 108
Eri Hotta - Pan-Asianism and Japan’s Fifteen Year War p. 46-56
George Beckmann - Yamakawaism and the Japanese Communist Party p. 146 https://castle.eiu.edu/studiesonasia/documents/seriesI/Vol 7 1966/s1_v7_1966Beckmann.pdf
George Wilson - Kita Ikki: Radical Nationalist in Japan p. 44-65
Janis Mimura - Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State p. 3, 110, 161
Louise Young - Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism p. 366
Marius Jansen - The Making of Modern Japan p. 540-41
Ryuji Hattori and Graham B. Leonard - Eisaku Sato, Japanese Prime Minister, 1964-72 p. 1-6 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/download/5875beb9-2280-4799-8908-9295890f3f37/book/pdf?context=ubx
Seizaburo Sato - Ryoichi Sasakawa: A Life p. 1-16
Walter Skya - Japan’s Holy War p. 88, 169
Yoshio Kodama - I Was Defeated p. 1-17
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:10 The Three Rogues of Japan’s 15 Year War
4:30 Nobusuke Kishi - the Father of Japanese Technocracy
20:29 Kita Ikki and Japanese Fascism
33:20 Pillar One: Pan-Asianism
36:29 Pillar Two: Technocracy
45:02 Pillar Three: Totalism
57:33 Yoshio Kodama the Underworld Fixer
1:06:15 Ryoichi Sasakawa “World’s Wealthiest Fascist”
1:14:48 Outtro
Published [2026-06-19]