The Japanese Vision on State and Order

... revealed that a great degree of heterogeneity exists in Japanese politics. Despite the alarm for over-simplification, the analysis is useful for describing an overall trend. In recent years, pro-globalization leaders 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 ...