Since middle 1950's, research in social sciences has focused upon increasing depoliticization, or of ideology. For contemporary radical intelligentsia, old ideologies have lost their power to persuade. At same time classical liberals no longer insist that State should play no role in economy, and even many conservatives, at least in England and on Continent, decline to argue that welfare state is the road to serfdom. According to Daniel Bell, is today a rough consensus in West.' That is, in many Western nations there is basic agreement on goals to be attained; debate now focuses on means, or administrative technologies, to be employed in achieving these goals. In this paper I shall seek to determine whether of ideology phenomenon has yet appeared in Japan. If we compare Japan with United States or some European countries-England or Sweden, for example-Japan is still an arena of ideological tension. Nevertheless, there is some evidence of an of ideology tendency in Japan, since end of Pacific War. To analyze this trend I shall survey contents of two Japanese magazines-Chuo Koron (The Central Review) and Sekai (The World)-both monthly magazines which have a strong influence on Japanese intellectuals, comparable to The New Republic or Harper's in United States. These magazines contain articles on social, political, economic and philosophical subjects, reports, novels and photographs. There are, of course, other influential magazines and other forms of mass media as well, but two selected will provide a useful measure of changes in ideological tension in Japan. Furthermore, I shall be interested in discovering if there is any correlation between of ideology tendency and Japan's economic growth since 1945. As Herbert Passin has suggested, there appears to be a close relationship between political and economic modernization of a country and what he calls professionalization of its journalism. In earlier and more intense phase of nationalist movement, close union of literature, politics, and journalism is very striking. The journalist is not a mere reporter but a commentator, essayist, propagandist as well-a writer. Most of journals in early stages of modernization of var-