On The Central Concept And Cultural Origin Of The Japanese Militarism Ideology

Japanese militarism once brought the mankind a huge disaster on the history, whose impact continues till today. In recent years, a series of behaviors of denying war crime of Japanese Government explains the inveteracy of Japanese militarism. Why can Japanese militarism survives so far? Through reorganizing the predecessor in this aspect research and analyzing Japanese militarism ideology, we can explore some important reason of its cultural level.First, the central concept of Japanese militarism ideology is the aggression ideology. This concept has existed in the Japanese myth since old times. Then these myths had been practiced, which enabled Japan's aggression tradition further to expand. To last stage of BAKUHU, under the threat of being invaded and civil strife, many thinker proposed each kind of aggression theory for seeking way to save the nation, which enriched the Japanese aggression theory. Entering the MEIJI time, the mature aggression theory turned to be the Japanese government's aggression strategy, which instructed a series of aggressive war since modern times. In brief, the final goal of Japanese militarism is territorial expansion. The aggression concept with a long history is the foundation of formidable vitality of Japanese militarism.More importantly, there are a lot of theory resources for this kind of militarism concept that supported the development of aggression tradition. These resources include: Shinto, which is the root of Japanese aggression consciousness; Japanese Buddhism, which has once provided the spiritual power for the Japanese invader; Japanese Confucianism, which helped to complete theory construction of the Japanese militarism; Bushido,which is a kind of Japan militarism in feudal period, has manifested the Japanese militarism tradition development achievement; Social Darwinism, which has provided a new theory support for further development of the modern Japan militarism ideology. The key to formidable vitality of Japanese militarism, is the support of these thought resources.In a word, the historical glorious aggression tradition, as well as the formidable cultural origin, is the basic reasons of Japanese militarism ideology which could survive so far after its system perished. In addition, after World War II, the best opportunity to eliminate the Japanese militarism missed because of US's occupancy Japan, which is the objective reason for Japanese militarism exsist a baneful influence until now.