Mentality and Ideology of the Japanese under the Occupation

（Dec.1, 2008, for Prof. Seraphim）

1.    Liberation from fanaticism and national autism[憑き物が落ちた（岸田秀）]

2.    Resignation: Vae victis[「負けっぷりをよくしようや」（幣原喜重郎）]

3.    焼け跡実存主義[坂口安吾]

4.    Back to the normalcy!  (for the older generation, to Taisho-democracy)

5.    MacArthur cult[拝啓マッカーサー元帥様]

6.    Americanization （憧れのハワイ航路）

7.    Postwar Enlightenment (cult of the West)

8.    Communism[revenge, severance from the past, Stalin-cult, Mao-cult]

9.    Conservatives (half-hearted acceptance of faits établis)

10.  Militarists (moral disintegration)

11.  Reactionaries (anti-modernism)

12.  Anti-communism (POW in Siberia)

13.  Postwar taboos

14.  The Emperor (the system and the personality)

15.  Tokyo Tribunal (“Victors’ Justice” vs. 「いい気味だ」)

16.  Early Post-Occupation Period (逆コース、but not of the militarists and ultra-reactionaries)

17.  Anti-Americanism (Left and Right)

18.  1965~(昭和40年代)[disintegration of the postwar taboos among intellectuals]