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I guess what I'm getting at is everything described in this article. The concept of ultra-conformity doesn't really resonate with the America.

• claudeganon 7y ago
  Perhaps, but it’s a second-order effect of America rendering postwar Japan as a de facto, right wing one party state. Whether or not Japanese society conforms to specific American social norms is less important than whether the society produced by this order serves broader US interests. You could make the same observation about other far right or monarchical regimes the US is currently allied with (e.g. Saudi Arabia).