Question

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Did Japan turn into a totalitarian regime? Please explain why this is complicated.

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Answer 1

Similar to Italy, Germany and some other European Countries, hyoernationalism and aggressive expansionism began to rise in Japan during the 1930s. The japan reached to a political totalitarianism, hypernationalism and fascism in to its climax in its invasion of China in 1937.

The beginning of totalitarianism is well connected with the treaty of Versailles which disagreed to recognise the territorial claim of japan and this steam up to the ultranationalism among the Japanese people.

Eventhough there was many nationalistic ideology arise among the far right wing group during the 1920s. These ideologies were not supported by government until these gained assist from the ruling government in 1930s.

The awakening of the 1930s itself was to the prominence of this ideology among the Japanese. Some portion of the Manchurian railroad was bombed by the some radical army officers in 1931 and falsely choke up the attack to the Chinese occupied Manchria. This was the beginning of the state towards the totalitarianism in an open way. During this time more than 30,000 left wing political dissenters were arrested.

In 1932 the The Prime Minister of Janpan was assassinated by the right wing army and navy officers and this strengthen the militarism in Japan and weakened the democracy and rule of law in Japan.

After these incidents, later in 1933 japan withdraw from League of Nations over the international criticism of Japan. The Japan's withdrawal from the League of Nations leads to the political isolation and it burned the hypernationalism, and expansionist theories.

These totalitarianism era in Japan was quite complicated because of many reasons. The country was faced many problems such great depression of 1930s, the militarism which lead to the killing the Prime Minister and the international criticism and isolation of the State and etc. marked the era really complicated in the political history of Japan.

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