Japanese militarism
In 1962, Hayashi published "Dai Toa Senso Kotei Ron", ("The Great East Asia War was a Just War") in "Chūōkōron." The work astounded his former Marxist colleagues with an apologia for Japanese militarism and the Pan-Asianism in World War II, and a stinging criticism of leftist pacifism. Controversy over the work continues, even decades since its publication.