Familial view of the state

...Finally, this ideology has been used to explain early modern and modern Japanese common people's society, fixing the traditions of the Japanese people in a transhistorical way, trivializing them, creating an inferiority complex against modern Western culture, encouraging a sense of superiority among Western ideologically-centered intellectuals, and misleading the scientific understanding of historical reality. The familial view of the nation, which likens the emperor to the head of the family and the nation to a large family, was an attempt to confuse and identify the nation and the nation, but not only was this attempt by the ruling class of modern Japan unsuccessful, but modern Japanese nationalism brought about the Fifteen Years' War and its disastrous consequences. In response, management familism applied the family principle of small and medium-sized enterprises (family business management) to the management of early capitalist large corporations, and achieved results. It became one of the factors supporting industrialization in modern Japan and was the foundation until the period of high economic growth after World War II. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to the "familial view of the nation" are listed below.

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…ひいては近世日本や近代日本の庶民社会をまで，こうしたイデオロギーで説明して日本民族の伝統を超歴史的に固定し，矮小化し，欧米近代文化に対する劣等感をもたらし，欧米思想中心主義的知識層の優越感を助長し，歴史的現実の科学的な認識をあやまらせる。　天皇を家長にたとえ国民社会を一大家族に擬する家族主義的国家観は，国家と国民社会を混同し同一視させる企てであったが，近代日本支配層のこのような企図は必ずしも成功しなかっただけでなく，近代日本の国家主義は十五年戦争とその悲惨な結末をもたらした。これに対して，経営家族主義は，中小零細企業＝家業経営における家の原則を初期の資本主義的大企業経営に応用して成果をあげ，近代日本における産業化を支える一要因となり，第2次大戦後の経済高度成長期に入るまでの基盤ともなった。…

※「家族主義的国家観」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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