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| The Historical Evolution of Japanese Neoconservatism |
| Sun Yandi |
| (School of Marxism， Chongqing Technology and Business University， Chongqing 400067) |
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Abstract “Neoconservatism” is a political ideology that almost simultaneously originated in Japan， the United States， Britain and other developed capitalist countries. As far as Japan is concerned， Yasuhiro Nakasone， Ichiro Ozawa and Shinzo Abe have not only played the key roles of “founder”， “theoretical standard-bearer” and “practitioner” of Japanese Neoconservatism， but also played the important roles of “initiation”， “promotion” and “acceleration” in Japan’s political right deviation. Nakasone Yasuhiro’s Neoconservatism not only puts forward the slogan of “Post-war Political Final Accounts”， but also contains the political appeal of “Amending the Constitution”. Ozawa’s Neoconservatism not only designs the top-level system of “Conservative Two-party System” from the core content and operation mode， but also interprets the political idea of “Ordinary State Theory” from the perspective of basic meaning and policy framework. Abe’s neoconservatism not only takes the wrong historical view as its ideological basis， takes “Amending the Constitution” as its long cherished political wish， but also takes “Beautiful Country” as its goal. The profound and far-reaching influence of Japanese Neoconservatism and its political right deviation on the trend of Japan’s political situation and the change of East Asian pattern in the past 40 years is worthy of attention and study.
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Received: 19 May 2021
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2021, Vol. 60 
