Family-State View

Japanese: 家族国家観 - かぞくこっかかん

…The term familialism refers to the fact that a society not only values the family as a social unit, but also exhibits a social structure that tends to extend and apply the principles of the family to various social relationships outside the family, or it refers to an ideology that aims to achieve such a social structure. Japanese society has placed importance on the family throughout the early modern and modern periods up until the present day, and because it is difficult for individuals to survive in social life without a family, the entire society has a structure in which families are united, and has been characterized by a combination of organizations such as networks of relatives and clans, various groups and associations based on functions, local neighborhoods and villages, and in ancient times, clans. …

From [The Emperor System]

...On the other hand, however, Japanese society at that time had a strong family system and family consciousness, and the good and old status of a family was considered to have value in itself. Reflecting the persistence of this patriarchal sense of order and the fact that the majority of the people had been of the same ethnicity for a long time, at the end of the Meiji period, a view of the family and nation was established in which the Imperial Family was the head family of the people, the Emperor was the father of the people, and the people were the children of the Emperor (family system). This led to the development of a Japanese theory of morality in which loyalty to the Emperor and filial piety to parents were one and the same. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "family-state view" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…家族主義という言葉は，ある社会が家族を社会の構成単位として重視するだけでなく，家族の原則を家族外のさまざまな社会関係にもおしひろげて適用する傾向のある社会構造を示している事実を指したり，あるいは，そのような社会構造となることを理念とするイデオロギーを指したりする。　日本社会は現代に入るまで近世，近代を通じて家を重視し，また社会生活上，家なしには個人が生きていくことが困難なため，社会全体が家々の連合する構造を示し，親類のネットワークおよび同族，機能別の多様な組や講，地縁的な町内，ムラ，古代には氏（うじ）などの組織の組合せにより特徴づけられてきた。…

【天皇制】より

…しかし他方では，当時の日本社会は家制度と家意識が濃厚であり，家格の良さ古さはそれ自体として価値をもつと考えられていたことによるものでもあった。こうした家父長制的秩序意識の残存と，国民の大部分が長期間単一民族であったことを反映して，明治末期には，皇室＝国民の宗家，天皇＝国民の父，国民＝天皇の赤子という家族国家観が成立した(家族制度)。そこでは君への忠と親への孝が一致するという日本道徳論が展開された。…

※「家族国家観」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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