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This magisterial history of Japanese nationalism reveals nationalism to be a contested and pluralistic practice that seeks to center the people in political life. It presents a wealth of primary source material on how Japanese themselves have understood their national identity

Geography, like the nation, is very much a state of mind. Concepts of place and spatial relationships involve a web of imaginative acts and projections of interests and desires by those who are empowered with the representation of space. Cultural and geographical imaginations draw from and act on both the hard limits imposed by the presence of physical terrain and the past of earlier representations that we often call "tradition." And yet, the power of geographical mapping lies not only in specific natural features, but also in the cultural and political resources of strategic representations. As such, the imaginative construction and reconstruction of nations and regions are historical projects. They draw from the events of their time, as well as the constantly changing discursive frameworks that are available to them, in order to present the image of a necessary relationship among contiguous political bodies. What makes the process especially complicated and fascinating is that often regional mapping, such as the Japanese construction of a modern East Asia in the 20th century, is simultaneously imposed on national mapping, and changing concepts of the region are often interwoven with, and interdependent on, changing definitions of the nation.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Fascism, Yet? -- Introduction: The Culture of Japanese Fascism -- Part I: Theories of Japanese Fascism -- Fascism Seen and Unseen: Fascism as a Problem in Cultural Representation -- The People's Library: The Spirit of Prose Literature versus Fascism -- Constitutive Ambiguities: The Persistence of Modernism and Fascism in Japan's Modern History -- Part II: Fascism and Daily Life -- The Beauty of Labor: Imagining Factory Girls in Japan's New Order -- Mediating the Masses: Yanagi Sōetsu and Fascism -- Fascism's Furry Friends: Dogs, National Identity, and Purity of Blood in 1930s Japan -- Part III: Exhibiting Fascism -- Narrating the Nation-ality of a Cinema: The Case of Japanese Prewar Film -- All Beautiful Fascists?: Axis Film Culture in Imperial Japan -- Architecture for Mass-Mobilization: The Chūreitō Memorial Construction Movement, 1939-1945 -- Japan's Imperial Diet Building in the Debate over Construction of a National Identity -- Expo Fascism?: Ideology, Representation, Economy -- The Work of Sacrifice in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Bride Dolls and Ritual Appropriation at Yasukuni Shrine -- Part IV: Literary Fascism -- Fascist Aesthetics and the Politics of Representation in Kawabata Yasunari -- Disciplining the Erotic-Grotesque in Edogawa Ranpo's Demon of the Lonely Isle -- Hamaosociality: Narrative and Fascism in Hamao Shirō's The Devil's Disciple -- Literary Tropes, Rhetorical Looping, and the Nine Gods of War: "Fascist Proclivities" Made Real -- Part V: Concluding Essay -- The Spanish Perspective: Romancero Marroquí and the Francoist Kitsch Politics of Time -- Contributors -- Index