A Basic Study on Cooperative Democracy in the early postwar period

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K20820
• Project/Area Number (Other): 18H05614 (2018)
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund (2019); Single-year Grants (2018)
• Review Section: 0103:History, archaeology, museology, and related fields
• Research Institution: Hirosaki University
• Principal Investigator: OHTANI Shinji 弘前大学, 教育学部, 講師 (50826899)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-08-24 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: 協同民主主義 / 国体 / 憲法 / 天皇 / 非武装中立

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Cooperative democracy, which had a certain political influence in the early postwar period, was a continuation of corporatism and the "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" theory. However, the flaw was corrected after self-criticism during the wartime period. It already had the three main principles of the Constitution of Japan.

Free Research Field

日本近現代史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

戦後民主主義・日本国憲法は、戦前・戦中の総力戦体制・対外膨張を正当化した協同主義・「大東亜共栄圏」論を否定し、大正デモクラシーの潮流が復活することによって成立したと解されてきた。しかし、本研究では、むしろ協同主義・「大東亜共栄圏」論の枠組を基本的には維持しながら戦中期の自己批判によって再編した政府寄りの革新派たちの協同民主主義論が、日本国憲法の三大原理を先取りする憲法構想を準備していたことを明らかにした。