전후일본에 있어서 문화정책관련법의 동향

Abstract

The post-war Japanese government recently recognized culture as a means of promoting the state, building local communities, internationalization, nation building, and eliminating human discrimination. It has also recognized the importance of a comprehensive welfare system, and the role of cultural exchange can play in the future. Based on that recognition, the government, local authorities, and companies are encouraged to pursue this cultural policy as an important part of their business. Especially, the expansion of global thinking in the twenty-first century has enabled cultural policy to create considerable value in a number of areas. This study attempts to analyze the extent to which the characteristics of Japanese laws relating to cultural policy actually support cultural policy in contemporary Japan. In post-war Japan, laws relating to Japanese cultural policy include laws such as the Japanese Constitution, the Fundamental Law of Education, the MEXT Equip Law, and the various city ordinances. Those laws regulate the ideas, aims, direction, and the practice of cultural policy in post?war Japan. In conclusion, Japanese laws relating to cultural policy were characterized as being responsible for expanding or creating cultural development and for promoting exchange between the international society and Japan through cultural policy. In the meantime, Japanese laws relating to cultural policy in post-war Japan were found to reflect thoughts of age, and to influence areas of political, economic, social, and cultural significance in the nationally or internationally society.