Word: minshushugi
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...constitution looked fine on the statute books. But what did Minshushugi (the way of the democrats) really mean to a people long accustomed to Shinto (the way of the gods...
...Japanese find U.S. democracy attractive but elusive. It is strange and foreign to the touch. Schoolboys argue whether Minshushugi means Marx, Lincoln or Adam Smith. Harried housewives wonder how long it will be before belief in true democracy can scale down the price of black-market soap. Said a greying Osaka politician: "We can explain the theory of democracy and even make laws about it. But to feel it, that is the big jump. Let's face it-Japan is being baptized at a very...
...lack of force in applying Minshushugi puzzles, and exasperates, some Japanese. "Who are we to choose?" asked a shabby ex-officer. "After all, the Americans are running the occupation...
Democracy has had some strange blossoms. Chic Young's Blondie (see PRESS), which appears with Japanese captions in the Tokyo Asahi, has become the symbol of Minshushugi. Like thousands of her emancipated sisters, Housewife Michiko Yamaga takes time off from her chores each morning to see what Dagwood's wife is doing. "If I had even stopped to read the paper like this in the old days," she says, "my in-laws could have thrown me out of the house for being lazy. Now to read is democratic...
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