MODERNIZATION OF JAPAN’S POLITICAL SYSTEM: FROM MILITARISM TO NEOLIBERAL DEMOCRACY

Abstract

After Japan’s defeat in World War II, its political system underwent a gradual modernization from militarism to neoliberal democracy. Radical changes in the structure, functions and the nature of the country political system differed in special political and legal aspects: in the form of the government, parliamentarism, a party system, governance. During this period, Japan went from a bureaucratic authoritarian system to a modern, conciliatory political system.

Keywords

• Japan's political system
• modernization
• the Japanese monarchy
• parliamentarism
• government functions