Katoo Syuuichi And Constitution Of Japanese Cultural Identity In Post World War Ⅱ

Japan is a country that very popular to talk about their own nationals or ethnic culture.In history,the Japanese people face different civilizations,through the absorption,digestion, fusion formed their own culture. But from the perspective of the culture itself, it lacks a Mainstream ideology which could Compare with the Western Christianity,China’s Confucianism and Indian buddhist, therefore,the problem of cultural orientation plagued the Japanese heart for a long time.Japan surrendered in1945, American troops stationed in Japan.Facing the fact of of defeated and occupied, Moral values and National idea during the war were collapsing, the intrinsic values of Japan almost completely shattered in short time, both material and spiritual in the lost and panic. In this case the Japanese urgently need to reposition their own cultural identity. In the face of United States,who as a new otherness to Japan, Japan’s ideological circle provides rich variety of answers to rebuild what kind of Cultural value identity. This article embarks from the thinking of the historical and cultural phenomenon, choose the angle of Japan postwar cultural identity construction, to reveal the cultural value of Katoo Syuuichi.Katoo Syuuichi has been honoured as a "the greatest intellectual"in Japan of postwar, in the1950s, Katoo Syuuichi well-known because defined Japanese culture as "hybrid culture". Took to the literary world at the beginning, Katoo Syuuichi first thinking about the trend of the Japanese culture and literature. After Japan’s unconditional surrender in the second year, he was through with Europe’s social culture, comparative study of literature and thought, for the Japanese represented by system of Japanese emperor absolutism fierce criticism of the feudal society and culture, once bias to "westernization", but After repeatedly has carried on the rational thinking and exploration about the Japanese society, culture, and the relationship between traditional and modern art and literature, he thinks ought to regard western culture as a frame of reference, with an eye to see the west, the other eye to see the east.Finally, he adjusted the focal length and found the right place in the collision of eastern and western cultures. His original "hybrid multiculturalism", is through the results of "two eyes" look for a long time.It can be said,"hybrid cultural theory" is not only the core of his cultural view, Observing all social and cultural phenomenon’s coordinate, but also the starting point of his research to criticism Japanese society and culture.In his view, the hybrid characteristics of Japanese culture is the important reasons of Japanese identity. Katoo Syuuichi perspective into Japan’s modernization history, analyzes the drawbacks of European socialist and Quintessence of socialism in the process of Japanese modernization, only pay attention to the modernization of science and technology, so that ignore the construction of democracy,the modern significance of traditional and it’s recreation, as a result,produced a throwback to the Japanese society. Through the analysis of Katoo Syuuichi, we can penetrating the modern Japanese national ideology under the mask of camouflage. He put forward cultural hybridity of Japan is a special answer of modern Japanese cultural identity as an intellectual, it should be said it’s very right, ingeniously solved the Japanese cultural identity anxiety. Hybrid multiculturalism not only contains rich aesthetic meaning and strong humanistic spirit, also reflected he as an intellectual’s Independent thinking in front of the different ideology.In this paper, on the basis of the comprehensive reference to various leading study, by the theory of the Japanese as the breakthrough point, from the Japanese cultural hybridity of Katoo Syuuichi, discuss the inherent value of collapse after the war, he as an intellectual how to undertake the important mission of construction of Japanese culture, in this particular period of post-war hybrid culture play a positive role, and its universal significance on human culture construction.