Grassroots fascism : the war experience of the Japanese people / Yoshimi Yoshiaki ; translated and annoted by Ethan Mark.

First published in Japanese by University of Tokio Press in 1987.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction by translator: The people in the war / by Ethan Mark -- 1. From democracy to fascism -- Part I. Hopes and misgivings regarding the war -- Part II. The people's war -- Part III. On the battlefields of China -- 2. Grass-roots fascism -- Part I. The roots of fascism -- Part II. The agents and receptors of fascism -- Part III. The situation of the Japanese in the occupied areas -- Part IV. Departing for and journeying to the front in the Asia-Pacific war -- Part V. Ranking the people -- 3. The Asian war -- Part I. The illusion of Indonesia -- Part II. Burma's meteor shower -- Part III. In the Philippine countryside -- Part IV. Back on the China front -- 4. Democracy from the battlefield -- Part I. Fascism developing cracks -- Part II. Overcoming the collapse of the state -- Postscript.

"A profile of the Asia Pacific War, the most important and still the least understood experience of Japan and Asia's modern history--as seen and lived by ordinary Japanese"--Provided by publisher.

Translated from the Japanese.