Political Process In Modern Japan

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  • 現代日本の政治過程
  • ゲンダイ ニホン ノ セイジ カテイ

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Since the combination of conservative parties in the autumn of 1955, long political power of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has been continueing over 30 years running in Japan. It is “factinalism” in the LDP that has had the long power of the LDP maintained. In spite of the previous-modernism which is based on the principles of political-familism in the LDP, factions prepared the next adequate power when a power fased a critical moment. This logic of “change of pace” enabled the LDP to take the reins of government in political level. And, the high growth of Japanese economy has been continueing as long as one long political power of the LDP has.<BR>However, since the end of 1960's, the policy of high growth of economy has made overpopulation and pollutions in the cities happened. When people in local region confronted with these problems, they reacted more sharply than people in central city, and it produced the “reformist” local-governments in several places. However, they disappeared in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka in 1979.<BR>It was not “conservatism” but “technocrats” from Home Affairs professing “de-ideology” that appeared in exchange for the “reformist”.<BR>We also can see the new movement of the “conservative view of life” among the people who are for these technocrats. They are usually called as the “floating voters”. They are very sensitive to the political validity, and always think which channel they can use as the best way to get their profits. The high growth of economy has brought the advancement of living standard, but, oppositly, that has produced people with the political sense based on “living-realism”. It will be the important factor ruling modern political process that how they establish their existance in this society, confronting with the pessimism of the supporters of the Socialist Party and with the cynicism of the young.

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