Shin Nippon Kyōgi Kai (The Council for a New Japan) Organisational network and analytical convergence
Based on the officer roster in Daisan no michi (1959) and secondary literature. Click any node for detail.
Figure 1
The Council's organisational network, c. 1958–59
Leadership structure and director tributaries as listed in the officer roster, with funding, publications, and the broader right-wing milieu the Council drew on and fed into.
Kyoto School intellectual
Confucian personalist
Military / wartime state
Business / zaibatsu
Tenkōsha / post-communist
Religious nationalism
Academic / legal / journalistic
Council apex
Click any node to see its role in the Council and its significance for the paper's argument.
Figure 2
Four trajectories converging on the Third Way
The Council's Daisan no michi as shared endpoint for four distinct transwar trajectories. Each trajectory starts at a different point in interwar Japanese political thought and ends at the same organicist-solidary anthropology that rejects the shared individualism of liberalism and communism.
Click any node to see the step in the trajectory and what it contributes to the convergence argument.