page_title: Statism in Shōwa Japan
hierarchical_section_title: Statism in Shōwa Japan
caption_attribution_description: English: Japanese postcard to celebrate the 2600th anniversary of imperial era (Koki 皇紀) in 1940. Français&#160;: Carte postale japonaise, célébrant le 2600e anniversaire de l’ère impériale (Koki 皇紀), lors de l'expansion militaire, en 1940.
context_page_description: Shōwa Statism was a political syncretism of Japanese extreme right-wing political ideologies, developed over a period of time from the Meiji Restoration. It is sometimes also referred to as Shōwa nationalism or Japanese fascism.
  This movement dominated Japanese politics during the first part of the Shōwa period. It was a mixture of ideas such as Japanese ultranationalism, militarism, fascism and state capitalism, that were proposed by a number of contemporary political philosophers and thinkers in Japan.
context_section_description: Shōwa Statism (国家主義, Kokka Shugi) was a political syncretism of Japanese extreme right-wing political ideologies, developed over a period of time from the Meiji Restoration. It is sometimes also referred to as Shōwa nationalism or Japanese fascism.
  This movement dominated Japanese politics during the first part of the Shōwa period (reign of Emperor Hirohito). It was a mixture of ideas such as Japanese ultranationalism, militarism, fascism and state capitalism, that were proposed by a number of contemporary political philosophers and thinkers in Japan.
caption: New Year's Day postcard from 1940 celebrating the 2600th anniversary of the mythical foundation of the empire by Emperor Jimmu
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