経済志林

On March 11, 2011, the East Japan great earthquake hit the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region. A huge tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. All power supply was lost and three meltdowns occurred. Radioactivity released by this accident caused environmental pollution, from which recovery is still not possible. A great East Japan earthquake was a symbol of malfunction and structural crisis in the Japanese system after the WW2. There is a close resemblance between the situation this time and the situation after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. Although people shouted for revival, the Great Depression resulted in the Showa Depression of 1929. It dealt a destructive blow to Japan’s economy and society. This later resulted in Japan causing the war of aggression; a "15year war." Yamada Moritaro published his "analysis of Japanese capitalism" in this situation. His work attempts to analyze the foundations of Japanese capitalism. Using this analysis of fundamentals, he was able to elucidate the basic structure and prospects of Japanese capitalism. Japan is now in the period of the lost 20 years, and we cannot find a way to escape from this situation. For the solution, the Liberal Democratic Party and Komei Party administration is intentionally attempting to draw Japan into militarism by causing a deterioration in the relationships with China and South Korea. I hope to provide the structure of Japanese capitalism after WW2 and the important points of change. The national subject of change in a country with “highly-developed capitalism” is as follows. The first, is reconstruction of the national economy under the East Asia economic area and the second is solution of the land problems.

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