The Search for a New Order by William Miles Fletcher III (9780807896648)
William Miles Fletcher III
Release Date: 10 December 1150 Format: Paperback / softback Pages: 236 Category: Asia Publisher: University of North Carolina Press ISBN: 9780807896648 ISBN-10: 0807896640
Fletcher explains how three writers--Ryu Shintaro, Royama Masamichi, and Miki Kiyoshi--who were supporters of democratic socialism became ideologues for the East Asian bloc ideal that rationalized Japan's dominance of Asia after 1937, and he demonstrates how and why they designed the New Order movement of 1940. He concludes that the advocacy of fascism was a reasoned effort to respond to the ills of industrialization and the challenges of mobilization for war.