Fascist Japan

Democracy clearly failed in Japan. The limitation of the Diet due to the veto powers the Japanese Emperor had, the corruption within the democratic leaders soiling the name of Democracy, the failure of the Democratic leaders and further on… Maybe these were some of the reasons why democracy had looked like a very poor system to a common Japanese man. Due to their failure to solve the problems of the farmers and workers, the Democratic Government was not supported by the people. Furthermore, the economic crisis which followed painted the Democratic Government in a bad light as it was powerless to make any decisions that could save the country. Coupled with a lack of faith in its abilities, the Democratic Government’s failure of solve all these problems lost it valuable support and steered the Japanese people to the arms of the military. Things began to take a change when western imperialism and American expansion influenced Japanese leaders to work towards an ideology of militarism since it made them more wary of safeguarding their territories and consolidating their position in the region.

This is how Japan started on the path of fascism. Of course, logically, every ideology has its own pros and cons and it depends on the history and culture of a country to fascism was beneficial to Japan to what level of extent. The word “Beneficial” refers to having given the country a positive change and for the case of non-beneficial, bringing harm and torture to the people. In my option, I have decided that Fascism did not benefited Japan to a large extent when considering about going long way down the road.

Firstly, looking at Japan’s situation, democracy did not fit in for Japan as there were loopholes in the system which indicates that Japan was not suited for democracy. There were many problems in Democratic Japan where workers had difficulties, the trade imbalance which eventually led to the great depression in 1929. The diet was then seen as weak and powerless;