ABSTRACT

The Japanese are considered to be a nation of people who have been made into Japanese: a people having a single language and a single way of thinking and using the same body language and gestures. Melting pot policies mean that all sorts of people come together from all sorts of countries in the smelter called the United States, and they all become known simply as Americans or American citizens. The Emperor system, which is the basis of the Japanese state, will be a major impediment to making progress in this direction. The dilemma that results involves problems of education, human rights, expression, and ethnicity and gives rise to some uneasiness about what the future holds for informational creativity, which will become increasingly important in Japan. G. W. F. Hegel's argument about the state is too eschatoiogical, and consequently many misunderstandings arise from it.