TY - GEN
T1 - The War Is Not Over
T2 - Kishi Nobusuke and the National Defense Brotherhood, 1944–45
AU - Levidis, Andrew
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Society for Japanese Studies.
PY - 2023/12/1
Y1 - 2023/12/1
N2 - Were military commanders and radical young officers the only opponents of surrender in 1945? What of their civilian collaborators? Focusing on the “continue the war” faction, this essay highlights Kishi Nobusuke’s leader-ship of the National Defense Brotherhood, a radical civilian association formed of Imperial Diet members who openly opposed efforts by the Japanese government to end the war. The history of the civilian opponents of surrender, and their ferocious commitment to the New Order for East Asia, opens up a range of reflections on the militarization and radicalization of Japanese political culture in the total war era of the 1940s.
AB - Were military commanders and radical young officers the only opponents of surrender in 1945? What of their civilian collaborators? Focusing on the “continue the war” faction, this essay highlights Kishi Nobusuke’s leader-ship of the National Defense Brotherhood, a radical civilian association formed of Imperial Diet members who openly opposed efforts by the Japanese government to end the war. The history of the civilian opponents of surrender, and their ferocious commitment to the New Order for East Asia, opens up a range of reflections on the militarization and radicalization of Japanese political culture in the total war era of the 1940s.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85148246429&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1353/jjs.2023.0001
DO - 10.1353/jjs.2023.0001
M3 - Other contribution
VL - 49
T3 - Journal of Japanese Studies
PB - University of California Press
ER -