Re:Many Japanese children refuse to go to school
by Pigo on Monday December 23, 2019 @01:30PM
(#21865827)
I guess what I'm getting at is everything described in this article. The concept of ultra-conformity doesn't really resonate with the America.
Re:Many Japanese children refuse to go to school
by claudeganon on Monday December 23, 2019 @01:36PM
(#21865887)
Perhaps, but it’s a second-order effect of America rendering postwar Japan as a de facto, right wing one party state. Whether or not Japanese society conforms to specific American social norms is less important than whether the society produced by this order serves broader US interests. You could make the same observation about other far right or monarchical regimes the US is currently allied with (e.g. Saudi Arabia).
So powerful in fact was the JCP, that the American occupation force used the threat of its rising power to coerce the defeated fascists into alliance with them and constitute what is now know as the Liberal Democratic Party. From here, it was a mere matter of providing them with massive subsidies and intelligence gathered on their opponents on the left-
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/09/world/cia-spent-millions-...
-and use the resulting power to produce a social, political, and economic order that was conducive to US interests.
I’m not certain what you’re getting at with regard to being “foreign” to American ideology, but authoritarianism is certainly not, if evidenced only by its long history and support of right-wing, authoritarian regimes.