The Soviet Union as the center of the counter part of the cold war Imperialism ceased to exist. Why did it cease to exist? What was the cold war system after World War II? It is the problem with which we are here concerned. In order to approach the problem, this paper deals with the consideration of the historical significance of Soviet socializm as the original type of 'the 20th century socialism' which was built in nineteen-thirties and ceased to exist in 1991. In such a case, we have to analyze it in the organic ring of the world history in 20th century. At first, in the stage of the formation of 'the 20th century socialism' in nineteen-thirties, we must pay attention to the characteristics in the construction of an autarky economic system and 'the socialism in one country'. Justification of 'the socialism in one country' brought 'the 20th century socialism' to degeneration into formalism. After World War II, in opposition to cold war policy of Imperialism 'the socialism in one country' has transformed its' character and universalized. And then it has changed into 'cold war socialism'. Economic pressure of the nuclear military force forms a remote cause of the fall of 'the 20th century sosialism'. The 20th century was an American era and 'the 20th century socialism' ran after American productivity, but because of reversal construction of economic system and of unproductivity of 'the 20th century socialism', it couldn't continue its life. The subject of subversion of capitalism will have to make a flesh start.

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The collapse of cold war system produced a strong influence to the .world economic order. It struck deeply the United States which was the hegemon of the world cold war sytem. Bill Clinton, governor of Arkansas, was elected 42rd President of the United States in 1992. He defeated Presifent Bush who is a successful winner of cold war race. It means that U. S. people wish stronger recovery and growth of U. S. national economy rather than maintaining hegemony of the world. The situation of U. S. competitiveness have grown even worse for these 25 years. Although U. S. goverment have tackled the difficult problem of recovery of U.S. economic power in this 15 years, they have not been able to succeed it yet. They have many reports and recommendations on U. S. competitiveness, for example, Report of the President on U.S. Competitiveness (1980), Young Report (1985), New Young Report (1988), Report of Council on Competitiveness (1992), and so on. The main reason of unsuccessfulness of U. S. competitive position depends on its parasitic on political and military power as hegemon. U. S. -Japan trade friction have grown more and more seriously in these 25 years. It repeats to perform always on Japanese self control of restricting of its export to the U. S. for the resolution of these trade friction. But it is not a true solution. Because U. S. -Japan trade imbalances are more large and serious year by year. It must be both to increase production power of manufacture on the U. S. side and to change export-oriented economic mind on Japanese side for the true solution of these imbalances. The U. S. changed drastically its attitude to Japan on the negotiation of trade problem in 1990's. They see Japan as a rival or a potential enemy in post cold war era. Japan insists on also its need and say 'NO'. It is very important how to harmonize economic interests between both countries.

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The purpose of the present article is to understand the era of the Cold War synthesizing three different perspectives. Firstly, the nature of the Cold War is reviewed from the stand point of the fallen U. S. S. R. Secondly, the structure and the result of the Cold War is studied from the standpoint of the U. S. Thirdly, the post-Cold War era is interpreted relating to the microelectronics=information revolution which has become evident in the U. S with the end of the Cold War. Our argument is as follows. The dissolution of the Cold War System which had been binding the post-War World for half a century gave rise to the two simultaneous events, the demise of the 20th Century socialism and the American stage of capitalism. The world-historical relationship of the two events marked a turning point not only in the history of the great industry by machinery after the Industrial Revolution, but also in the history of monopolistic and imperialistic capitalism developement after the Great Depression in the late 19th Century. In other words, it gave rise to the microelectronics = information revolution and the world market revolution. And the double penetrating revolution is now producing "Great Depression in the late 20th Century". The fin de siecle capitalism can't be analyzed without defining what the double revoluton is.

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The aim of this paper is to examine the change of a town-and-village economy and a measure for the regional promotion, in addition a shaking of the social order in a region by it. Then I want to value not only the autonomy of land-owners but also the active autonomy of small-scale producers highly. After the Russo-Japanese War, Kawamata town was struck with slack of the silk textile trade as a key industry. Financial measures or the measures by the townspeople themselves, for example the foundation of firms and industrial associations, were taken to remedy situation. The industrial association, which the members had to guarantee the redemption, was established and borrowed money at low interest from the government. In the development of the measures, the upper class as a leader in the region were hoped to participate in the promotion of the silk textile industry, and had to take upon themselves responsibilities, that they were not allowed that they did not answer the expectation. They actively discharged it on one hand. But I think upper classes behavior with responsibilities was limited. On the other hand, small-scale producers in the silk texile trade with power looms claimed that the upper class fulfilled their responsbilities, in other words, that they supported the silk textile trade as a key industry all the more, for the sake of smooth management and close fighting happened between them. So, upper class who were pressured by producers were dragged into further measures for the promotion for their responsibilities. A measure for the regional promotion in the period following the Russo-Japanese War had not only the character which took place by the autonomy of land-owners and consequently, could keep the order in a town-and-village, but also the character which yielded an opportunity to foster the instability of social order in the region, by the appearance of a new pushing subject on a measure for the regional promotion, that is to say a small-scale producer.

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