Japanese Political Culture

• Japan was the first non-Western nation to undergo modernization and has risen to be an economic superpower.

Meiji Restoration

• Meiji Constitution (1890)• Imperial Diet

Imperial Diet

• Oldest parliamentary body in Asia• Bicameral legislative body

• House of Peers• House of Representatives

Emperor

• Head of state• Sovereign

• Divine ancestry

Emperor Meiji. © Wikimedia Commons.

People

• No sovereign power• Restricted political participation

• Limited voting right• Strict rules on political participation

not many of the citizens are interested in politics

Post-war political culture

• Social relations are based on hierarchy.

• Group – oriented• Subservience to authority

• conformism and group loyalty

Group-oriented values in Japanese politics

• Japanese politics revolve around strong political parties and factions.

Japanese political parties

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)

Democratic Party

Japan Restoration Party

New Komeito Party

Your Party

New Political Culture

• Clark and Inglehart

• explains the changes in political attitudes and actions of the public in advance industrialized societies.

Major factors that caused change in political culture in Japan

Econom

icSocial Governm

KAKUSHIN

conservative

reformist & progressive

Hoshu Kakushin

prewar regimerearmament of

anti prewar regimeOpposition to the

rearmament of Japan

small governments market economy

economic development.

big governments equality

participation

Before

• NPC citizens refuse to be treated as “clients” of parties or the government

they have more personal resources (education, income, communication skill, etc.).

• They are more active in joining issue-specific organizations and seeking participation in general policy formation

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