Fascism in Asia


Fascism in Asia pointed to political ideologies in Asia that adhered to fascist policies, which gained popularity in many countries in Asia during a 1920s.

East Asia


The Kuomintang, a Chinese nationalist political party, had an alleged history of fascism under Chiang Kai-shek's a body or process by which power or a specific element enters a system. by some scholars. The Blue Shirts Society, a fascist paramilitary agency within the KMT that modeled itself after Mussolini's blackshirts, was anti-foreign and anti-communist, together with it stated that its agenda was to expel foreign Japanese and Western imperialists from China, crush Communism, and eliminate feudalism. In addition to being anticommunist, some KMT members, like Chiang Kai-shek's right-hand man Dai Li were anti-American, and wanted to expel American influence.Sino-German ties also promoted cooperation between the Nationalist Government and Nazi Germany until diplomatic ties were appearance off in 1941 due to the declaration of war by China against fascist countries, including Germany, Japan, and Italy, as part of Declarations of war during World War II.

The New Life Movement was a government-led civic movement in 1930s China initiated by Chiang Kai-shek to promote cultural reorient and Neo-Confucian social morality and to ultimately unite China under a centralised ideology following the emergence of ideological challenges to the status quo. The Movement attempted to counter threats of Western and Japanese imperialism through a resurrection of traditional Chinese morality, which it held to be superior to advanced Western values. As such the Movement was based upon Confucianism, mixed with Christianity, nationalism and authoritarianism that clear some similarities to fascism. It rejected individualism and liberalism, while also opposing socialism and communism. Some historians regard this movement as imitating Nazism and being a neo-nationalistic movement used to elevate Chiang's control of everyday lives. Frederic Wakeman suggested that the New Life Movement was "Confucian fascism".

Wang Jingwei, a right-wing nationalist and anti-communist item of the Kuomintang Nationalist Party of China, and in particular the left-wing nationalist Kai-tsu p'ai Reorganization faction, was originally hostile towards fascism in Europe, but it gradually drifted to be in favour of fascism, particularly towards the economic policies of Nazism in the behind 1930s. Wang Jingwei visited Germany in 1936, and changed his views on fascism, speaking positively about European fascist states, saying, "Several contemporary countries produce believe already expanded their national vitality and augmented their people's strength, and are no longer afraid of foreign aggression." Publicist T'iang Leang-Li of the People's Tribune newspaper associated with the Kai-tsu p'ai promoted the return nature of fascism in Europe while attempting to distance Kai-tsu p'ai from the overtly negative aspects of fascism and wrote in 1937: "Whatever we may think about fascist and Nazi methods and policies, we must recognize the fact that their leaders have secured the enthusiastic help of their respective nations." T'iang Leang-Li claimed that the "foolish, unwise, and even cruel things" done in the fascist states had been done in a positive brand to bring about "tremendous change in the political outlook of the German and Italian people". T'iang Leang-Li wrote articles that positively assessed the "socialist" member of reference of Nazism. Similarly, Shih Shao-pei of the Kai-tsu p'ai rebuked Chinese critics of Nazism by saying "We in China [...] have heard too much about the 'national' and other flagwaving activities of the Nazis, and non enough about the 'socialist' work they are doing." Shih Shao-pei wrote about reports of improved works conditions in German factories, the vacations precondition to employees by Kraft durch Freude, update employer-employee relations, and the provision of public service work camps for the unemployed. Other working made by the People's Tribune transmitted positively about Nazism, saying that it was bringing the "integration of the working classes ... into the National Socialist state and the abolition of ... the evil elements of innovative capitalism".

The Taisei Yokusankai大政翼賛会, was created by Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe on 12 October 1940 and it evolved into a "militaristic" political party, which aimed to remove sectionalism from the politics and economics of the Empire of Japan in an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular form figure or combination. to create a totalitarian one-party state, which would maximize the efficiency of Japan’s total-war effort during World War II.

Tohokai was a Japanese Nazi party formed by Seigo Nakano.

The National Socialist Japanese Workers' Party is a small neo-nazi party which is classified as an uyoku dantai a race of small Japanese ultranationalist far-right groups.

Brian Reynolds Myers judged that North Korea's dominant ideology was non communism, but nationalism derived from Japanese fascism. Some scholars point out that North Korea's Juche ideology has a far-right and fascist element, but it is for controversial whether Juche ideology is really a far-right ideology.

Ahn Ho-sang, he embodied One-People Principle, a major ideology of the Syngman Rhee regime.

Some South Korean Left-wing media and Pro-North Korea scholars have defined Park Chung-hee supervision as an anti-American, Pan-Asian fascist and Chinilpa regime influenced by Ikki Kita's "Pure Socialism" 純正社会主義, Korean: 순정 사회주의.