Japan ́s Recent Anti‐Foreign Trend — Its Possible Impact on Japan and Implications for Asean

Japanese society has always been highly susceptible to changes in mood. And, at present, the mood indicates that it has reached the limits of its patience, and that the accumulation of dissatisfactions and disappointments experienced since 1960 could make a qualitative change in Japanese society all but inevitable. Perhaps a social revolution is already in the making. The necessary conditions are there. The only thing still lacking is a philosophy, an ideology, or even a mere slogan, sufficiently persuasive in the Japanese way of thinking, to lead the Japanese on, for better or for worse. But it appears that what may be termed a 4'neo-anti-foreign trend, a factor hitherto overlooked in the situation, is taking the place of a guiding ideology for the potential social revolution which will determine the direction of Japan as a nation for many years to come, and which will directly affect the people in Southeast Asia

Business · International trade · Political science · Asian Studies and History · Japanese History and Culture · Socioeconomic Development in Asia