Is Japanese Militarism Back?

For Gandhi, greed led to violence, violence to militarism, militarism to war, and war to annihilation.

In German thinking, power became inextricably associated with nationalism and militarism.

Many Asians, including some Japanese, see this as a sign of new militarism.

Opposition to any perceived revival of Japanese militarism is hard wired in Northeast Asia.

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The reinterpretation will almost certainly result in protests from China and South Korea against resurgent Japanese militarism.

But Russia s return to militarism in Europe s east now seems to be bringing about a gradual shift.

And this tradition survived as Korean military authoritarian regimes took power , leaving traces of militarism in our schools.

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The third and seemingly scariest component of Hwang s formula, militarism, may in fact prove to be the system s Achilles heel.

He could not have been the bravest or most decisive man, given that he was unable to resist rising militarism.

By fueling Japanese insecurity, US policy risks bringing about the very outcome a return to militarism that it aims to prevent.

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Hitler repeatedly promised that he would use any means to fight inflation, but his militarism also led to the expropriation of savings.

Moreover, pacifism is deeply ingrained in the Japanese psyche, even among young people, largely owing to the painful legacy of Japan s prewar militarism.

The economic historian Harold James notes that the countries that turned toward aggressive militarism in the 1930s had previously been large suppliers of emigrants.

But the circumstances under which Japan would use force are so restricted that a revival of militarism is still a very long way off.

I grew up in a country surrounded by a general state of suspicion, protected by militarism, sunken and crushed under an olive green boot.

For example, by stating their willingness to take any territorial disputes to the International Court of Justice, Japanese authorities could help to dispel perceptions of militarism.

But America s neutrality on sovereignty disputes threatens to undermine its bilateral security alliances (which, by preventing countries like Japan from turning toward militarism, actually serve Chinese interests).

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's annual visits to the Yasukuni Shrine which is widely viewed as a symbol of Japan's former militarism is a conspicuous example of this.

Hwang Jang yop, North Korea s former chief ideologist and its most senior defector to the South, describes North Korea as a mixture of socialism, modern feudalism, and militarism.

What needed to be purged instead, postwar reformers believed, was a specific form of Japanese militarism, rooted in emperor worship, the samurai tradition, authoritarian feudalism, and so on.

Japan s colonial occupation of Korea, for example, is described as a partnership one looks in vain for any account of the victims of Japanese militarism in Nanjing or Manila.

The danger is not renewed Japanese militarism, but rather a Japan that is unable and unwilling to do its share to meet the regional and global challenges facing Asia.

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But, instead of accepting China s olive branch, Koizumi implemented a more nationalistic agenda, including annual visits to the Yasukuni Shine, which is regarded as a symbol of Japanese militarism by Japan s neighbors.

Chinese critics, in particular, have expressed concern that Japanese militarism could reemerge, though they neglect to mention that it is China s military buildup that prompted Japan s government to reassess its national defense policy.

Despite the controversy and the protests, the Abe government will not disavow use of a Meiji era education document that contains language legitimizing militarism, so long as the presentation does not conflict with Japan's Constitution.

The risks posed by increasing nationalism and militarism to regional peace have already been highlighted by the rise of a new Chinese dynasty of princelings, or sons of revolutionary heroes who have widespread contacts in the military.

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