Cooperativeism

...Specific theories such as "East Asia Cooperative Association," "economic reorganization," and "national organization" were proposed as measures to achieve this. The keynote of these claims was "cooperative ideology," and according to Miki, who tried to provide a philosophical basis for it, "cooperative ideology" was a philosophy that sublimated liberalism and fascism and opposed communism. The group was deeply involved in the Konoe New Regime of 1940 from the perspective of strengthening the national organization, but as the movement became government-sponsored, opinions within the group were divided, and in the end, the Showa Research Society was dissolved in November 1965, following the establishment of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association.

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…その方策として，〈東亜協同体〉〈経済再編成〉〈国民組織〉などの各論が提唱された。これらの主張の基調となったのは〈協同主義〉であり，それに哲学的基礎を与えようとした三木によれば，〈協同主義〉はリベラリズムとファシズムを止揚し，共産主義に対抗する哲学であった。40年の近衛新体制には国民組織の強化の観点から，深く関与したが，運動が官製化されるにしたがって，会内部でも意見が対立，結局，大政翼賛会の成立を機に昭和研究会も40年11月解散した。…

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