On Ozawa Ichiro And The Japanese Political Right Deviation

Ozawa Ichiro is a key figure in the later period of the cold war and a decisive rolein Japanese politics from the ending of Cold War. He is not only to set the tone forJapanese politics by his advocacy of new conservatism, but also sets an example byplunging into Japanese political practice personally, and sparking rounds of thetempestuous waves of differentiation and reorganization, accelerated the process ofJapanese political right deviation. Japanese political right deviation intensifies oncurrent and future international relations in the Asia Pacific region change, especiallyhas added many variables and buried huge hidden dangers and troubles into theSino-Japan relations. Therefore, it has importantly academic value and practicalsignificance to study the relations between Ozawa Ichiro and Japanese political rightdeviation.The thesis consists of five chapters.Chapter1(Introduction), mainly explained the background, origin, value andsignificance of this selected topic, and introduced research methods, research status athome and abroad, and paved the way for the other four chapters in the text.Chapter2, mainly discussed the relationship between Ozawa Ichiro’s politicalcareer and Japanese political right deviation."Ozawa Ichiro" the name, make known toevery family from the ending of the cold war in Japan; its distinct character and stylehas become an independent style; he was a man who can summon wind and call forrain in the post Cold War in Japanese politics, has directed series of Japanese politicaldramas. Ozawa Ichiro’s political career has mainly experienced the following periods:(1)the period of LDP: in the best of both wings and that everything is going smoothly;(2) the period of Japan renewal party: mapping out a strategy and tasting of the firstdefeat;(3) the period of the New Frontier Party: stepped forward bravely, butdismissed the party in helpless;(4) the period of the Liberal Party: stumbling and indilemma;(5) the period of Democratic Party: getting both praise and blame, declininggradually;(6) the period of the People’s Life Party: in twilight, and Shaped shadowsingle. Throughout Ozawa Ichiro’s political ups and downs and the post-war Japanese political right deviation of the general trend will be found, among the two followshadow, is inseparable, has a direct and significant relationship: Japanese rightistpolitical background, influence character by environment effects of Ozawa’s politicalphilosophy and practice; and Ozawa’s political philosophy and practice, and in turn,strong to promote Japanese rightist political tendency. Since World War II, Japanesepolitical right deviation experienced dormant, peristalsis, starting, accelerating,aggravated in five stages.Chapter3, mainly discussed Ozawa Ichiro’s political philosophies.Ozawa Ichiro’shas two core political philosophies. The one is "conservative two-party system", theother is "ordinary country theory"(also called "normal state theory"). The former is the"conservative party system", is a top design of Japanese political party system, is thecore philosophy and political ideas of Ozawa Ichiro about the Japanese party system, isthe core of the "Japanese dream" content, be regarded as to be able to play the role oftransforming national consciousness, realizing national strategic target of the politicalsecurity. The latter is the so-called "ordinary country" theory, is the core concept andstrategy for national development strategy, the reconsideration on the post-war Japan"economic giant, political dwarf" of the so-called "single lung country" status of theresults, with his strong expectations and political aspirations to the future of Japan’snational strategy. It is in the guidance of these two core ideas, Ozawa has set off thetempestuous waves continuously in Japanese politics, pushing Japan into the twopolitical goal tendency.Chapter4, mainly discussed the political practice of Ozawa Ichiro. Ozawa isknown not only with a distinctive political philosophy in Japanese politics, but also forthe backroom deals and tough action. In the construction of the "conservative partysystem", his political practice generally can be classified into two categories: onecategory is on the stage, continuously to propel the differentiation and integration ofnational political power, especially by weakening the LDP and strengthen theopposition, to lie the organizational formation for the "conservative two-party system"and political pattern; another kind is behind the scene, manipulation and promote thebirth of non LDP coalition, especially through the implementation of small electoraldistrict system, laying the foundation for the formation of "election system ofconservative two-party system". For the realization of "conservative party system",Ozawa directly contributed to the turn of the century political reform in Japan, and once achieved the "conservative bipartisan political conception"(Liberal DemocraticParty and the Democratic Party). Although since2012, Japan’s political arena,reproducing the LDP "one party alone big" the political situation, but the politicalreform is still difficult to reverse the trend of Japanese politics. In the realization of"ordinary country" theory, Ozawa engaged mainly in three aspects:(1) promoting thepractice of the Japanese government promulgated relevant laws to achieve the "PeaceConstitution" objective modification in fact, which provides legal basis for therealization of "ordinary country" theory;(2) advocating the nationalism, denyingresponsibility for the war of Japanese aggression;(3) strengthening the Japan-USalliance and the implementation of UN diplomacy continuously, to seek internationalallies and international platform for the realization of "ordinary country" theory. As aresult, Japan is stepping toward the target of economic power rapidly.Chapter5, mainly discussed the status and the role of Ozawa Ichiro in the Japanesepolitical right deviation. On the status, the role of Ozawa Ichiro is very complex andblurring; but no matter how many roles and appearances, they can not cover the"spiritual leader" of the most important political role in the Japanese political rightdeviation, also can not dilute the "spiritual leader" status in the process of the Japaneseright deviation. This is "spiritual leader" status is mainly manifested in: except theJapanese Communist Party, both the opposition and the ruling party, both the oldconservative party and the new conservative party,both traditional and the middlepath of innovation party, are more and more widely accepted Ozawa’s the"conservative two-party system" and "ordinary country theory" in political philosophy,propelled Japan scurry towards political goal designed by Ozawa overtly or covertlyand lay down Ozawa’s political path.On the function, Ozawa Ichiro could be described as" booster", it’s mainly displays in:Ozawa Ichiro’s political philosophy not only played a role in boosting the Japanesegovernment and the thought of the right, but also for the Japanese political rightdeviation provides guiding ideology; Ichiro Ozawa manipulation practice the rulingand opposition parties differentiation and combination, not only to propel rapid right inJapan political right deviation and Japanese national strategy, and create the conditionsfor the more right-wing politicians aboard the Japanese politics.The purposes of this thesis are two: the first is, through systematic review ofOzawa Ichiro’s political ideas and political practice,to make up the deficiencies in the domestic academic circle on "Ozawa Ichiro research","Japanese right deviation study",and "the relations between Ozawa Ichiro and the Japanese political right deviation";the second is, through a comprehensive discussion on the relations between OzawaIchiro and the Japanese political right deviation,to diagnose Japan’s current politicaldynamics accurately and predict the Japanese political future correctly,to offer someconstructive reference for diplomacy policymaking of China to the Japanese, tocontribute to the stable, healthy development of Sino-Japan relations.