Editing Showa Statism (section)

==== Denial ====

* American political scientists Kevin M. Doak and Gregory Kasza believe that the label "conservative dictatorship" applies, but not fascism. According to Doak, in order to defend the Meiji Constitution, the government targeted not only left-wing dissidents but also right-wingers and fascists. 
* In the opinion of Comintern and Shigeo Kamiyama, Japan's political system at the time was "military-feudal imperialism", a term used by Lenin to distinguish between the imperialism of the European powers and that of Tsarist Russia. The Japanese Communist Party's platform also unifies the notion of Japanese imperialism.
* Takahisa Furukawa expressed the following opinion in his book "Parliament and Administration in the Wartime Showa Period": The two declarations of the National Polity Clarification proclaimed that "our national polity was revealed by the Divine Imperial Command bestowed at the time of the descent of the heavenly grandson, and the Emperor shall rule the country of unbroken succession, and the glory of the throne shall be boundless in heaven and earth (First Declaration)" and "Politics, politics, and all other matters must be based on the true meaning of our national polity, which is unparalleled in all nations, and its essence must be made manifest (Second Declaration)." This was intended to exclude foreign political systems, including not only liberalism and socialism, but also fascism (historically, this was also used by the established right wing, the idealistic right wing, and Japanists, to attack the reformist right wing who supported fascism). 
* Kang Sang-jung points out that "Prewar Japan was not fascist, but was internally divided. Although it appeared to be united under the Emperor, there was probably a '''strong''' sense of sectionalism. This may be a major difference between Japan and Nazi Germany. "