Prosperity and "Conservatism" in Hokuriku

Prosperity and "Conservatism" in Hokuriku

The liberal politics of the Democratic Party of Japan have foundered and been supplanted by the conservative politics of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). As the politics surrounding the US-Japan Security Treaty are becoming more convoluted, the push to amend the Constitution is gaining momentum....

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Veröffentlicht in:Social science Japan : newsletter of the Information Center for Japanese Social Studies, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, 2015-09, Vol.53, p.16-19
1. Verfasser: Eisaku, Ide
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Conservatism
Ideology
Japan
Politics
Prosperity
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Zusammenfassung:The liberal politics of the Democratic Party of Japan have foundered and been supplanted by the conservative politics of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). As the politics surrounding the US-Japan Security Treaty are becoming more convoluted, the push to amend the Constitution is gaining momentum. In the "mission statement" that the LDP issued at its founding in 1955, the party included its goal to "revise the current constitution independently." Postwar conservative politics began to coalesce around debates on topics such as revising the constitution, the foundation of postwar democracy. [web URL: http://newslet.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ssj53/ssj53.pdf] Reprinted by permission of Institute of Social Sciences
ISSN:1340-7155