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This 4 page paper examines the problematic nature of liberalism and democracy in Japan during the prewar and immediate postwar period. The views of several theorists are discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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and democracy in Japan during the prewar and immediate postwar period. Japan has also faced fundamental challenges in the creation of a democratic and liberal system. Maruyama Masaohas been
critical of Japans totalitarian system, suggesting in 1944, that the nation had not "yet escaped natures hegemony" (Thomas, 2001, 16). Both the prewar and wartime period rendered Japan as
the "embodiment of nature" (2001, 16). Maruyama argues that within the system, autonomous individuals would never be able to flourish due to the significant difficulties they face in respect
to imagining their situation other than that status quo (2001). In other words, to some extent, the problems that the Japanese people faced during the time just before the war,
during the war, and shortly thereafter, is one of mind. Nature, as defined by Japanese culture, is that there is no authority for the challenge of the current situation
unless one would go outside of the scope of Japanese ideology and tradition (Thomas, 2001). It is a sensible idea but it is also one that to some extent is
not easily implemented. How does a nation, or a people, suddenly change course? Of course, in Japan, the war acted as a catalyst and to some extent the cold war
would prod Japan to its ultimate height. Still, turning outside of the general traditions of Japan seemed unpatriotic (2001). It is also something that could conceivably lack justification and Maruyama
suggests that nature does dominate Japanese ideology (2001). If in fact this is the case, the embrace of democracy and Western control is clearly detrimental to the psyche of
the people. Contrary to Maruyamas ideas, the good that would come from totalitarianism would be equated, in their view, with the mastery of nature (Thomas, 2001). For Maruyama,
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