Some Aspects of Nation-State Building In Modern Japan
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The single most important political task tackled by the Japanese ruling elite during the second decade of Meiji was that of consolidating a new political and administrative system based on a national constitution. This system would qualify Japan as a modern nation-state. In the process of carrying out this task, however, the elite was sharply divided as to which particular western counry would make an ideal model on which to base Japan's efforts at nation-building and unifying the people.<BR>It is safe to say that the young intellectual bureaucrats and their associations played an extremely imporant role in disseminating and propagating new social and political ideas in Japan.<BR>At this point it is important to note that as the introduction of Western, mainly German, theories of law and political science got underway, a parallel and complementary attempt was made to delve into ancient Japanese statutes and ordinances, classical Japanese literature and history books compiled by the Imperial Court. The aim was to reorganize peculiarly Japanese thoughts on law and politics into a coherent system. Generally speaking, many Japanese sought after their national identification as the westernization went on.<BR>By the way, to disseminate Western knowledge to the majority of Japanese, anchoring the new social, political and legal systems deep in Japaneses society, other means of propagation were indispensable. Important among these was popular entertainment. And the traditional popular entertainment arts, especially rakugo and kodan, were not only mobilized from above; they were also used as an important means of mass politicization by the movement for democratic rights, which became prominent after the eighth year of Meiji.<BR>An extremely influential popular entertainer active in the dissemination of poliical thought and whose career reflected the socio-political climate of early Meiji most vividly was the storyteller Matsubayashi Hakuen, San-yutei Encho and Kairakutei Burakku (Black the Epic-urian).<BR>This research tries to clarify how closely popular entertainment was related to the political and legislative environments of the time.
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