Japan's postwar edifice has rested on two mighty pillars. The first is its military alliance with the US, its erstwhile conqueror, under whose nuclear umbrella Japan has sheltered since 1945. The second is the Liberal Democratic party, stalwart defender of that alliance, whose benign conservatism supported Japan's extraordinary economic rise. The first of these pillars, the LDP, is about to crumble. What will happen to the other one?
日本的戰(zhàn)后體系建立在兩大支柱上。第一個(gè)是與昔日占領(lǐng)者美國(guó)的軍事聯(lián)盟——自1945年以來(lái),日本一直處于美國(guó)的核保護(hù)傘之下。第二個(gè)是日美聯(lián)盟的堅(jiān)定捍衛(wèi)者自民黨(LDP),其溫和的保守主義支持了日本非凡的經(jīng)濟(jì)崛起。其中的一個(gè)支柱——自民黨——即將坍塌,另一個(gè)支柱會(huì)怎樣呢?