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Focusing on Japan, in this essay, I will explain the concept of “total war,” specifically through examining the total war experienced by Japan during the Second World War. In particular, I will analyze this topic from the perspective of the civilians who were mobilized during the war. In other words, I will observe how exactly the war mobilization was carried out, how it changed history and finally how it affected Japanese society. Moreover, this study also analyzes how the total war system was developed, and conducted by citizens at the bottom.
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Narita, R. (2016). Women’s Total War: Gender and Wartime Mobilization in the Japanese Empire, 1931–1945. In: Corner, P., Lim, JH. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Mass Dictatorship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43763-1_27
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