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Exploring Reasons for Japan’s Post-War Political Stagnation
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Abstract
After the Second World War, the militarist, corporatist system of the imperial Japan had collapsed. Since then, Japan adopted a democratic system centered around the Liberal Democratic Party. This paper analyzed the political situation of Japan after the Second World War by exemplifying and investigating Japan’s political Stagnation. By analyzing the political situation of Japan, this research reveals the significance of political reformation and progression. This study selected and analyzed 15 different sources including books, articles and videos Economically, post-war Japan had a heavy reliance on the United States since the Korean War. Although the bubble economy of Japan through the 1970s provided the Japanese population with political confidence to an extent, The collapse of the bubble economy stopped Japan’s economic growth. Since then, Japan had entered “the lost thirty years”. In addition to the reasons aforementioned, political bureaucratization, lack of actual changes and powerful implicit order caused changing the status quo harder. These are the main factors working behind Japan’s political stagnation.
Keywords
Japan, politics, Post-WWII, Cold War, stagnation
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Long,S. (2023). Exploring Reasons for Japan’s Post-War Political Stagnation. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,25,12-17.
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