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2 min readJul 22, 2018
ZBC#103 [Fork and Silo] Japanese Ideology/日本の思想
Today, I’ll introduce the Japanese Ideology from Zenport Book Club#103 on July 21th 2018.
Summary
- Japanese ideology doesn’t have absolute being like Christian in Western ideology and Confucianism in China, then it accepts many ideas from other ideologies. Then Japanese ideology becomes sum of several ideas, and it doesn’t have structure.
- In Meiji era, in order to make common base of ideology, Japanese government used Emperor. Regarding Emperor as Father of country, the government tried to create structure of thought.
- Since Japanese academic fields didn’t have any common basis and accepted a lot of things from Europe, each academic fields were separated and didn’t collaborated. He called this situation Silo-style(Takotsubo-gata). On the other hand, western academic fields has one basis, like Christian. He called it Fork-style(Sasara-gata).
- Since Japanese academic field didn’t have common basis, they often confront and fight each others. In order to let them collaborate and make new values, we need to have common basis.
Discussion
- I learned a lot from the Fork and Silo discussion. In terms of that, Takeshi Okada, the past manager of Japanese National Football team, argued the same kind of issue. He said Japanese football asks players to play with creativity, even though they don’t have any types. He criticized that creativity cannot be made without any type. I agree with this idea. Freedom and creativity are based on common types and styles. I feel the importance through management.
Conclusion
Today, we’ve read Japanese Ideology, which describes the the characteristics of Japanese thought.
Next, let me introduce Human Evolution from Zenport Book Club #104.
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