Japan and Its Historical Shackles
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Today, Japan is still the third largest economy in the world, but when the outside world mentions it, people are interested in its traditional art, food, fashion design, and animation industries. Regarding Japan's political and economic institutions, they are more concerned about the incompetence of the government, the economic downturn, and the collapse of the myth of "Japan's No. 1". In order to find the reasons for Japan's troubles, Taggart Murphy turned his attention to the political and economic history starting from the Heian period. The yoke of Japan was forged as early as 1603 when the Tokugawa shogunate implemented the seclusion policy. The shogunate's obsession with order and stability directly injected the concept of hierarchy into the militarized state capitalist system established by the Meiji Restoration. It not only dragged the world into the quagmire of war, but also burdened modern Japan with heavy historical debts. Japan, which was committed to rapid economic development after the war, has never been freed from this historical shackles. Although Japan once won overseas markets with its labor system, technology and assets, in the face of new products and service models brought by the Internet, Japanese companies that clung to tradition began to stagnate. Lies about the construction of national myths and war narratives, as well as the anti-foreign sentiment encouraged by the Abe administration, have also put new shackles on Japan. The author reviews the history of Japan's political construction by the Western "Japanese Knowledge School" since the 1970s, coupled with his own experience of Japanese culture and the marginalized classes of Japanese society, trying to find a Japan that is slowly moving forward in shackles, but full of vitality.
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