Social Sciences
In a previous post, Shisaku's Michael Cucek pointed out the national ambitions of Hashimoto Toru. Much of Hashimoto's celebrity results from his revisionist historical views and social conservatism. Hashimoto's nationalism, however, is different from Japan's mainstream conservative nationalists. It is rawer and draws from the despair of the average Japanese who see a widening gap between the haves and the have-nots.
This reactionary populism also manifests itself in the rhetoric of former General Tamogami Toshio and his Gambare Nippon movement. Both eschew "establishment" conservatism. Above is a report by the Shingetsu News Agency of a Gambare Nippon rally outside the Yomiuri Shimbun against the newspaper's support for expanding Imperial succession through the female line. The Yomiuri is the paper of record for Japan's establishment.
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Social Sciences
Japan's Populist Right
In a previous post, Shisaku's Michael Cucek pointed out the national ambitions of Hashimoto Toru. Much of Hashimoto's celebrity results from his revisionist historical views and social conservatism. Hashimoto's nationalism, however, is different from Japan's mainstream conservative nationalists. It is rawer and draws from the despair of the average Japanese who see a widening gap between the haves and the have-nots.
This reactionary populism also manifests itself in the rhetoric of former General Tamogami Toshio and his Gambare Nippon movement. Both eschew "establishment" conservatism. Above is a report by the Shingetsu News Agency of a Gambare Nippon rally outside the Yomiuri Shimbun against the newspaper's support for expanding Imperial succession through the female line. The Yomiuri is the paper of record for Japan's establishment.
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The five women ABE Shinzo selected for his Cabinet on September 3rd are not evidence of women's advancement in Japanese society, as SHIRAI Satoshi (?? ?) argues in GQ Japan. Instead, they are indicative of how fundamentally patriarchal Japanese...
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Two seemingly unrelated stories dominated Japan?s political news over the last weekend in January. First, Japan?s ruling party, the DPJ, discovered and then tried to hide an estimate that the consumption tax would have to be 17% by 2075 to fulfill commitments....
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In the previous post, Professor Penn mentioned the effect of former Air Self Defense Force General Toshio Tamogami's revisionist views on Japanese politics. He won a prize for an essay, Was Japan an Aggressor Nation, which concluded that Japan was...