Though they were an Axis power, to what degree was WWII-era Imperial Japan actually fascist? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

Though they were an Axis power, to what degree was WWII-era Imperial Japan actually fascist?

by Comrade-Chernov

I had always thought they were more or less under the same modus operandi as they had been in WWI. Was there a fascist movement or something like it which took hold following WWI? Or was it similar to how they had been a few decades prior in WWI?

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