New book Nihon Essay Essay Masayasu Hosaka : The Tragedy of a Military State Without Philosophy Bunshun Shinsho

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Nihon Essay / Essay : Bunshun Shinsho / Why did Japan start the Pacific War and end in defeat? Why did reckless operations such as "Gyokusai" and "Kamikaze" cost so many lives? The author became involved in the study of Showa history with a strong motivation to solve these mysteries. It was also a trip to find answers to these fundamental questions that led to interviews with nearly 5000 people involved in Showa history. The more I researched the path leading to defeat in the war, the more I had to reexamine history not only in the Showa era but also after the Meiji Restoration. The more I researched the path leading to defeat in the war, the more I had to reexamine history not only in the Showa era but also after the Meiji Restoration. As a result, the author believes that the following five visions of the nation were sought during this period : (1) an imperial nation following the Western powers ; (2) an imperial moral nation respecting morality and ethics ; (3) a civil rights nation centered on freedom and people's rights ; (4) a federal nation following the United States ; and (5) a small Japanese nation pursuing the expulsion of foreigners. In reality, Japanese history follows (1), and everything converges to the military. The end result was the tragic defeat in the Meiji era. So did the remaining visions of the nation disappear as they were? Not so. The thoughts and visions of each of the four aspects of the nation have once gone underground in Japanese society, and continue to flow even now. And they erupt every time we enter an important Turning Point in history. If you take the historical view of the "underground water channel," you can see that the current Japanese predicament - the economic vagaries, the permanent salaried society, the failure of politics, and the failure of elite education - have been repeated for more than 150 years. This book reexamines the modern history of Japan by looking at the "underground water channel."