http://fresno.k12.ca.us/divdept/sscience/history/totalitarianism.htm
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Japan: Totalitarian?
Japan was very prosperous after WWI and had a growing democratic government. But the Great Depression hit them hard because their economic success was due to trade. they struggled with solving their economic crisis so they ended up turning to the military to handle things, so the military ended up taking matters into their hands. a military dictatorship formed in japan by the early 1930's. a small group of military leaders ended up dominating the government because japan didnt have on strong leading, like italy and germany did. japan did have some totalitarian characteristics: the began to impose censorship, arrest critics, and they created a special police force to hunt down enemies of the state. they then invaded Manchuria in order to gain an overseas empire that would provide them with raw materials.
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their invasion on manchuria was based on total false pretenses. They claimed that someone had bombed a railroad when in fact it was the japanese that had bombed themselves. This showed the corruption in their government, they were trying to be like western countries (conqering many foreign lands) and lied to their people about it to gain trust in their military
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