Chapter 10: Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus

1. Chapter 10: Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus July 3, 2013 SayakaHamana Yuta Ozaki

2. The Government destroying documents • Japanese officials had intentionally destroyed huge quantities of documentary records before the US cooperation forces arrived • A variety of additional documents that survive both the bombings and the destruction have come to the attention of scholars

3. The Report that survived the bombings • One of the reports that survived was found in Tokyo in 1981, consisting of almost four thousand pages divided into eight volumes • This report was written by researchers • of the Ministry of Health and Welfare • The researchers offered a long-range vision of Japan’s projected global “new order”

4. The contents of the Report • Directly confronted the issue of racism • Sought the opportunity of finding “ideas unique to Japan”, “ideas common among the Asian races”, and “ideals shared by all mankind” when transcending such racism • Stated that the Japanese were the “leading race” of Asia and destined to remain so “forever”

5. What is this Report in the first place? • It is an detailed example of empirical racism in the hands of well –educated Japanese practitioners • It is a frank statement of the relationship between Japan’s expansionist policies and its assumption of racial and cultural supremacy • It shows Japanese racism and ethnocentrism to be far from a unique and sui generis phenomenon

6. “ proper place” • Potent concept served in the mundane world to rationalize and reinforce disparate status and power relationships among people, races, and countries • Japanese perception of themselves as the leading race was consistent with traditional philosophic concepts of “proper place”

7. The national character of the Japanese • These three points effected the formation of national character as the Japanese • Geographic isolation • Natural disaster • The distinct seasonal variations

8. Japanism • Japanese expansion abroad was first and foremost the unfolding of a benevolent mission • To bring the quantitative improvement, the government promoted social-welfare legislation, created new medical facilities, and provided national health insurance, in order to raise the birth rate.

9. The eight directions under one roof • The improvisation on the popular slogan • “The ultimate ideal of the Cooperative Body • is to place the whole world under one roof” • Westerners often interpreted as signaling Japan’s plan for world conquest

10. Plan to immigration to the Co-Prosperity Sphere • Moving 14% of Japanese population to around the Sphere • For the relentless demographic imperatives • over population • For military strategies • in order to ensure the cooperation of native people with Japan • For economic consideration • impossibility of being fed from existing home resources • Avoiding intermarriage with native people for purity of blood

12. Family Ideology • Each individual was to his/her proper place, culminating at the top in the single patriarch or family head • The family was the archetypical “organic” entity, whose inner relationships were inequitable, but in theory complementary and harmonious • The ruling samurai elite in the feudal era • Argued the relationship had been theirs since earliest time

13. Family Ideology (2) • Considering the emperor as the pater families • Formally adopted in the 1930s • Japan: self-proclaimed head of the family and parent • The core countries: elder brother or brothers • The people and nations of the south: younger brothers • Textbooks for primary-school children

14. Resistance from Asian people • Toward Japanese behavior to them • oppression and outright brutality • Toward racial composition by administrative personnel • the visceral racism • Japanization

15. The basic financial and economic policy • In order to assume the dominant financial and economic roles • In order to refashion these is a manner which ensured Japan’s permanent supremacy in Asia

16. Opinions • The text was important because it explained Japanese idea toward the race specifically. Also, in this chapter, it revealed how Japan had planned during the War. • The text was interesting because the theory of family was familiar with us. Moreover, the report which the Ministry of Health and Welfare written impressed us. • The part of family ideology was the most difficult to understand

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