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Japanese nationalism - After 1945 | | Japanese nationalism - After 1945: Encyclopedia II - Japanese nationalism - After 1945 | | In February of 1946 General Douglas MacArthur was set the task of drafting a model constitution to serve as a guide for the Japanese people. The U.S. intention was to ensure that the sources of Japanese militarism were rooted out through fundamental reforms of the Japanese government, society, and economic structure. Perhaps the most lasting effect that came out of this constitution is article 9 that reads:
"Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sov ...
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Japanese nationalism - After 1945
In February of 1946 General Douglas MacArthur was set the task of drafting a model constitution to serve as a guide for the Japanese people. The U.S. intention was to ensure that the sources of Japanese militarism were rooted out through fundamental reforms of the Japanese government, society, and economic structure. Perhaps the most lasting effect that came out of this constitution is article 9 that reads:
"Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes. In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right to belligerency of the state will not be recognized."
With the renunciation of war and military power, Japan looked to the United States for security. As the Cold War began, the United States fostered a closer relationship with Japan due to the latter's strategic location in respect to the USSR. Japan became, as stated by the Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" for the United States. Ensuing from this close relationship with the United States, Japan hoped that in time their country would become the "third leg in a triangle involving two superpowers." The seventies witnessed Japan's adoption of three fundamental tenets that would seek to define and direct Japanese internationalism, all concerning the need for Japanese initiatives in fostering a liberal internationalism. Japan's economic miracle of the late 20th century distracted its citizens' attention away from nationalism.
Today, Japanese nationalism is perceived by some to be on the rise. The right-wing Revisionist Party seeks to revise (if not completely rewrite) the constitution to exclude article 9. It believes that the exclusion of article 9 would allow Japan to develop a foreign policy independent of the United States. Other examples can be found in the popularity of books such as Shintaro Ishihara's The Japan That Can Say No, Analects of War, and the textbooks that downplay Japan's role in WW II. The 1998 adoption of the national anthem and flag as state symbols (symbolic of Japanese nationalism during WW II) and Prime Minister Koizumi's five visits to the Yasukuni Shrine have also been viewed by some as an increase of nationalism. On the other side, other commentators view changes over recent years as merely an assertion of Japanese confidence and point out that Japan is no more nationalist than any of its neighbours.
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