Just tuned in... awesome... its on in HD on Shaw 214.
I had never heard of Japan being described as 'fascist' until the OP did... I'm going to start reading up on that now. I always considered early 1900's Japan hyper-Imperialist, and certainly racist, but 'freer' internally when compared to fascism, which implies heavy state control, but I could be wrong.
Edit:
http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=KkhpxkLJxyDLSpp0vyv1Y 36VV23TXv4SvH7knxKT22x902thQcH9!-2071802929!846852835?docId=97786290
and:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...847123,00.html
http://books.google.ca/books?id=NjbP...age&q=&f=false