A Study Of The Decline Of Left-wing Political Parties In Contemporary Japan

After the Second World War,Japan conducted demilitarization and democratization reforms at the command of the United States.Progressive people in Japan had taken the initiative to form a new party,soon,the Japan Socialist Party,the Liberal Party,co-party,the Progressive Party and the Communist Party had been established,as well as 363 parties also mushroomed emission,many political parties in the country temporarily.After 10 years of development,the Japanese political parties for their own interests and development,between political parties continued to carried out reform,cooperation and even merge,forming a pattern of political party the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan,the Socialist Party and the Communist Party represented.Among them,the radical revolutionary forces that took socialism as the goal,safeguard the peace constitution,and oppose re-armed are divided into left-wing political parties,Japan's Socialist Party and the Communist Party are the representatives,The relatively conservative Liberal Democratic Party had become the main representative of the right-wing parties.During the decades after the Second World War,Japan's political arena had for a long time formed a situation of "reform and security against each other." The struggle between the left and the right had never ceased.During the initial period after the Second World War,Japan's major political parties enjoyed a good development.However,as the Cold War started,the struggle between the left and the right-wing political parties began to intensify.The strength of the left-wing parties was not enough to resist the right-wing political parties Pressuring,eventually leading to the left-wing political party slump.On the one hand,the decline of the left-wing political parties is due to its internal factors.First,the internal discord among the left-wing parties,including its own factional struggles and social parties,consumes most of its power;the failure of the left-wing parties' own policy line and the grassroots organizations Secondly,the pacifist culture has gradually ebbed and the neo-conservatives and neo-nationalisms replaced by it have risen.The conservatism of the people has directly led to the loss of a large number of left-wing parties The lack of strong support from the working class and the left-wing political party's difficulty in politics.On the other hand,external factors also have a significant impact on the decline of left-wing parties.Since the war,the chaebol has been a strong pillar of the right-wing political parties,has been supporting the development of the right-wing forces,has an hostile attitude toward the left-wing parties and is unable to develop in the face of the rich and powerful right-wing forces and the left-wing parties lacking the economic foundation.At the same time,the international situation is also moving toward changes in favor of the right-wing party.The drastic changes in the Soviet Union and East Europe and the collapse of the socialist camp had left.Under the pressure of the United States,the left-wing political party had become powerless.The decline of Japan's left-wing political parties is a foregone conclusion.Now,as the rightist trend intensifies in Japan,it is even more difficult for the left-wing parties to recover.At present,the decline of the left-wing political parties has a tremendous influence on Japan's internal affairs.With the left-wing loss,the Japanese right-wing forces have been dramatically inflated and their right-wing tendency intensified.Under the suppression of the powerful right-wing forces,Japan's pacifist voice has become increasingly Weak,socialist movement is also difficult to continue.On the other hand,the lack of checks and balances by the left-wing forces,the intensification of the Japan-US alliance deepened Japan's dependence on the United States,greatly strengthened Japan's military nature and directly led to the changes in the relations between Japan and China and other East Asian neighbors,Anxiety about the restoration of its militarism.