The Peace Constitution in Postwar Japan : A Hermeneutics of Public Philosophy
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At the present one can rightly observe a strong interest in the themes of publicity, of public philosophy, and of the public sphere in the fields of human and social sciences in Japan. There certainly are diverse understandings of, and approaches to, these themes. The paper grapples with the issue of public philosophy in the postwar period of Japan. The paper assumes an approach similar to the institutional one which Walter Lippmann, for instance, showed in his classical effort to elucidate the issue of public philosophy in America of the 1950s by paying close attention to such legal documents and institutions as the Declaration of Independence, the Federal Constitution, social and political arrangements, the public opinion about shared public values of the nation. Perhaps one can correctly indicate three strong candidates for public philosophy which operated in the postwar Japan: (1) constitutional democracy and pacifism based upon the Japanese Constitution often called the Peace Constitution, (2) public philosophy of economic growth which aimed at the economic betterment of the postwar society, and (3) neo-nationalism which incessantly attempted to recover prewar and midwar values of the nation. These public philosophies or ideologies have been interacting with one another both in competition and in mild overlap, directing the postwar society of Japan. The author aims at articulating the historical roles which the Peace Constitution and its constitutional pacifism have played as a guiding public philosophy in the postwar society. The paper attempts to come to terms with the significance of the Peace Constitution as de jure public philosophy in the light of its constant tension, cooperation, and rivalry with the ideology of economic growth, that is, de facto public philosophy of the postwar Japan. The paper also proffers a tentative suggestion that points to the continuous relevance of the Peace Constitution of Japan at the threshold of the 21st century.
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