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Militarism

Militarism is the most frequently used term in China, referring to Japan as an aggressive country before and during WWII. In his well-known book first published in 1928, Dai Jitao of the Guomindang, clearly defined prewar Japanese militarism. He pointed out that when a country’s overall system was controlled by military forces and engaged in aggressive expansion, the country had turned into a militaristic state: “Militarism was not only a sort of expression of ideas…but also must be a sort of system in which the regime was fundamentally based upon the military organization, all political forces were subordinate to the military forces, and all political organizations were subordinate to the military organizations, and only by doing so that the country can turn itself into a militaristic state.”2 Accordingly, Dai believed that unlike the imperialist nations, such as Britain and the United States, prewar Japan was a typical militaristic state.

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