Study On Thought Of Modern Militarism For Meiji Period

The mentioning of Japanese modern militarism,which usually related to the end of Taishou era and the opening of the Showa era,and under the threat of a series of assassinations and mutinies,constitutionalism are often falls,the absolutism in the modern Mikado system also passively engulfed the constitutionalism,and the military became the most powerful but still unable to achieved unity of institutional subject.The militaristic ideology as a spiritual guide was not only produced by the military bureaucrats of ruling faction,and also related to the right-wing,such as Kita Ikki and Okawa Shumei.To summarize,to observe strictly in accordance with the original meaning of militarism,that modern Japanese militarism and its thoughts seem to be nurtured by the era of Showa.However,the modern Japanese militarism neither began from Showa era,nor was complete opposition of Taishou democracy,on the contrary,it was not only the basic national policy of Meiji Japan since the restoration,but also continued the spiritual and ideological context of the pre-modern times.Whether it was the cultural nationalism activated in the confrontation with China,or on the one hand,made China relative from the western perspective under the situation of exertion of western forces on eastern countries,and on the other hand,it found and strengthened the imperial state consciousness as the counter object of new China as while as the sprouting the theory of civilization,such a dissimilation of cognitive structure of his understanding based on one kind of self-inflate expansion undoubtedly is the root of the internal structure of militarism,and then from Asia into Europe furthered the modern overcome process of subversion were undoubtedly only a cycle.In a sense,the spiritual essence of this militarism thoughts also means the stubbornness to the generalization of self-worth.Therefore,the investigation of modern Japanese militarism needs to return to the scene of pre-modern society ideological events,and outline the continuous ideological chain between pre-modern and Meiji people.This militarism thoughts run through the contempt and self-expansion of others,which was even more widespread in the Meiji era,whether was the enlightenment intellectuals,liberal civil rights group or the general public,and even among women and children,that there was acceptance for this kind of contempt.This situation was undoubtedly a revelation of the fiction of free civil rights and a reflection of the great role of Meiji Japan in the processing and reassembly of militaristic thoughts: The reversal of values in pre-modern times was absorbed and consolidated into the theory of civilization,while China has been gradually deprived of its subjectivity as an independent country,which became a synonym for barbarism,while Korea was simply absorbed into the "Same ancestors of Japanese and Korean";on the other hand,Japan was not only responsible to represent and spread civilization,but also responsible as the alliance leader of protecting oriental ocean.Then the slogans or theories of "Cruel China should be punished" and “East Asia cooperation " in Showa era can be found in the militarism of Meiji era Japan.From this point of view,the completion of pre-modern Japanese militarismthoughts was undoubtedly in Meiji era Japan,and Showa Japan was the successor and practitioner of this mixture of dross.In reviewing the militarism of Meiji Japan in three clues such as pre-modern and modern times,intellectuals and the public,separation from Asia and revitalize Asia,which will be more likely to restore its original internal multiple features.