Emerging Culture Wars: Backlash against ‘Gender Freedom’ (Jenda Furi in Japanese)

Abstract

The year 2009 marked an important turning point in Japanese politics in the post-World War II era. In this year, the rule of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which had lasted nearly six decades, ended. From one perspective, the LDP can be seen as an extremely interesting political group. It is ideologically diverse: while a significant liberal wave exists within it, it encompasses an extremely conservative ideological stream that wishes to bring back the fascism, based on the emperor system, of the prewar era. The question that arises, then, is how did this party, which included both left- and right-wing elements, maintain its unity? The party maintained, as a political ideology, the common principles of anti-communism; it created unity by taking on the task of promoting economic growth, with the support of industry and the bureaucracy, and of adjusting the distribution of wealth to domestic interest groups, leading to a Japanese model of welfare regime. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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