The Japanese Vision on State and Order

... have been a dominant visionary in Japanese politics, with a stronger role envisioned for the state. Yet the dramatic oscillation of voter preference (for example, from Koizumi’s libertarian-neoliberalism in the early 2000s to Abe’s statist-globalism) indicates that domestic audience is in search for a new source of social prosperity and is open for new approaches. Another notable trend is a unique dualism of Japanese visions, where pro-Westernism is seen more as a matter of political methodology (how a nation should be governed) rather than of political values (what should be the purpose and priority of governance). Overall, a vast majority endorses a vision ...