The Restoration of Prewar Young Men's Association (Seinen-dan) leaders and “Corporatism” in the Post War Peroiod : from the end of the war to 1960s
2010 Volume 46 Pages 1-10
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2010 Volume 46 Pages 1-10
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the background of discourses that honor Tazawa Yoshiharu, who was a representative ideologue of prewar Young Men's Association (Seinen-dan), and the Japan Federation of Young Men's Associations (Dai-Nippon Rengo Seinen-Dan), that have appeared several times in the post war period.
After World War II, the Nippon-Seinenkan has honored Tazawa and the Dai-Nippon Rengo Seinen-Dan of the prewar period from the end of the war to the early 1950s and in the middle 60s. And Kumagai Tatsujiro, who was one of the prewar Seinen-dan leaders, also has honored the Dai-Nippon Rengo Seinen-Dan from the middle 50s to 70s.
The question we have to ask here is why this praise of Tazawa and the Dai-Nippon Rengo Seinen-Dan have often appeared in the post war period.
As a result, this paper shows the following;
(1) Many of the people concerned with the Dai-Nippon Rengo Seinen-Dan or Nippon-Seinenkan in the prewar period who were purged from public service after the war returned to Nihon Seinen-kan in the 1960s, so, a clear continuity from the prewar period was seen among the officers of the Nippon-Seinenkan in middle 1960s.
(2) It is supposed that they had adopted the Wartime corporatism (Kyo-do Shugi) and emphasized the political neutrality of the young men's associations in the postwar period.
