WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA
Yoshimi Yoshiaki. Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People
Translated by Ethan Mark (2015)
“These searing and honest accounts drawn from the diaries and memoirs of ordinary Japanese soldiers and civilians make abundantly clear the brutality of the Japanese Imperial Army. They also reveal the suffering, the blind devotion, the gradually emerging seeds of doubt, and finally both the catharsis and the disillusionment that came with the collapse of the empire. Ethan Mark’s excellent historiographic introduction places Yoshimi’s work in the context of postwar Japan’s long process of coming to terms with its imperialist past. A crucial contribution to our understanding of modern Japan.”
–Jordan Sand, Georgetown University
