The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
This is the English translation published at the time.
It has not been completely retranslated into present-day English.
Please therefore read it for the overall meaning of the argument rather than for the details of the English expression.
This chapter introduces a discussion between Takeshi Nakano and Ryuichiro Matsubara on the limits of individualism and the importance of rebuilding a shared social foundation, or “co-op,” in Japan.
It looks back to the Meiji era’s massive investment in compulsory education, the role of the Emperor as a symbol of commonality, and the postwar company community as forms of social and human-relations capital that supported Japan’s modernization and innovation.

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The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
Japan will go wrong enough to do individualism.
There was an article like the following in the preamble omitting part of the interview feature article (monthly magazine HANADA this month issue p68) between Mr. Takeshi Nakano and Mr. Ryuichiro Matsubara introduced as entitled.
Preamble abbreviation.
Limit of individualism
Matsubara
Let’s examine individualism or alternatives to individualism.
I think that Japan cannot go ahead unless it makes “co-op” (common) once again.
At the time of the Meiji Restoration, the leaders realized that individualism alone cannot do just fine.
Even though there was a Terakoya, it was a charge.
Therefore, it made read and write abacus compulsory education and thickened the cultural capital.
It was not a Terakoya of elitism where some human beings go, but let’s learn everyone with compulsory education.
By raising this communication skill, it tried to make “co-op” between individuals and the whole.
It thought that primary education is necessary to make “co-op”.
Mori Arinori and so on, they are using the money tremendously for the educational system.
At that time, the municipalities used about 40% of taxes for education.
Ronald Philip Dore, who told Nakano’s story earlier, pointed out that this huge investment promoted modernization of Japan.
In Meiji Restoration, on the other hand, we placed the emperor as a symbol of “co-op”, and then liberalized further.
This worked pretty well.
After the war, we put the community inside the company, and once again revived the “co-op”.
This is human relations capital.
Ronald Philip Dore, in America, technological innovation only occurs within the head of individuals, yet why Japanese organizations were intrigued by whether technology innovation will occur in ‘co-owners’.
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